His Dirty Hands (The Montgomery Boys Book 2) by Jessica Mills

Author:Jessica Mills [Mills, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2020-09-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Clayton

The thing about working the ranch and fighting all the parts of it that kept trying to fall apart all the time was that at some point or another, the ranch was going to fight back.

Somewhere along the lines, I’d met my quota of days going by without incident, and that day, the slats of a fence I was repairing got the best of me. I beat them into submission with my hammer but went home with a couple of handfuls of splinters to show for it. This was not the first time it had happened to me and it for sure wouldn’t be the last. That was just part of the experience.

But that didn’t mean it didn’t piss me off when it happened.

“Son of a bitch,” I said loudly as one particularly aggressive splinter stayed in place after my fourth attempt at prying it out.

“That’s pretty misogynistic of you,” a voice said from behind me.

I turned around to see Shannon coming into the kitchen. “What?”

She went to the refrigerator and opened it. “At the very least, you could have used the right term for me. Daughter of a bitch. But my mama is the sweetest woman in the world, and it would still be misogynistic to keep the end part. You’d have to switch that, too. So daughter of a... bastard?”

Her head came up over the refrigerator door. The expression on her face was completely unfazed. I stared at her, waiting for something else, but she just took a sip from the can of soda she’d taken out.

“I don’t think I’m comfortable having this conversation with you,” I said flatly.

Shannon shrugged. “Fair enough. So, what are you in here muttering into nothingness about?”

“Splinters,” I said, turning my attention back to my palm.

“Fixing fences today?” she asked. I glanced over at her and she lowered the can from her lips. “Jesse came to my place a total mess the other night. I think he was doing the fences in the far corner and they hadn’t been touched in a while. A few of the boards were totally broken.”

“Yeah, there were some in bad shape. We need to tend to them more often. What are you doing here? Where’s Jesse?”

“He’s still out on the ranch. He should be back pretty soon, though. We’re going to have dinner and go out to The Junction tonight.” She put down her can and came over to the sink to snatch my hand into hers. “Here, let me see.”

“It’s fine. I can do it.”

“Hush,” she said. “In all this time you’re here fussing, I could have these things out and you could be done with it.”

I relented. “Go ahead.”

“Good.”

She dried my hand with a towel and examined it, then pulled me over to the other side of the kitchen to open a drawer. Out of it, she took a small plastic container. Inside was a pair of tweezers and several alcohol pads.

“Where did those come from?” I asked.

“I put them in there after Jesse’s incident.

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