Hard Fix: A Blue Collar Romance by Mila Crawford

Author:Mila Crawford [Crawford, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-09T18:30:00+00:00

11

Edison

I hadn’t been nervous for a date since—well, maybe I’d never been. Ethel had come to help me, and by help, I meant eating tacos on my white sectional, guzzling beer, and watching the game. Not to mention occasionally throwing in a comment about what a sellout I was. I loved my brother. But if he weren’t my brother, I’d kick him the hell out of my house.

“Any plans for your weekend, Ethel?”

“Windsurfing, and then we’re going to pit roast a whole pig in Stewey’s backyard.”

“Charming. Too bad I sold out, otherwise I might come and play ‘Lord of the Flies’ with you.”

“You wish, douche. Instead you’re going to go waltz in a ballroom and throw money at people you don’t even know. This chick you’re trying to impress… Is she a debutant or some shit?”

“Ethel, she’s a mechanic.”

“No shit? I never knew a girl mechanic before. She any good?”

“She was the best in town. I would have hired her for Roads if she didn’t already have her own shop.”

“A chick with a shop. She look the part? Can she lift tires?”

“I don’t know what you’re insinuating, but she’s fit and strong and sexy as fuck.”

“So are you serious?”

I chucked an orange from the bowl on the table at his head. He ducked.

“Don’t pretend you didn’t just drop a glob of salsa on the couch. I have a dining room with a table, Ethel. Use it! I bet at home you eat tacos in your bed. Pig.”

“Have you fucked her yet?”

I lobbed another navel orange, and this one made its mark, hitting him square in the chest so hard that he rubbed the spot.

“None of your fucking business, bro.”

“That’s a no, then, bro yourself.” He tossed the same orange back, intending to hit me. But I already had my suit on, and I managed to catch it before he hit the target. The orange was crushed, and the wet juice dripped down my wrist. “If you did, you wouldn’t be so defensive.”

“Got a degree in psychology now, Ethel? Or maybe I just like her a lot and I don’t want to jinx what we’ve got.”

“Which is what? Fierce competition in a small market that isn’t reliable enough for you both to survive? I bet she’s luring you in so she can get you good and whipped. That’s her hustle. She’ll play you for a fool and then break your heart just to run you out of town.” He looked at me soberly and nodded his head slowly.

“You watch too much television,” I told him.

But what he said made my blood chill. Laney was genuine. She wasn’t just fucking with me. I could tell she liked me by how she blushed just when making eye contact with me. Those bright-blue eyes didn’t lie. They told me more truth than all the other bullshitters I dealt with on the daily.

I trusted Laney Mills. Didn’t I?

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