Just 18 Summers by Michelle Cox & Rene Gutteridge

Author:Michelle Cox & Rene Gutteridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / General
ISBN: 9781414390901
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2014-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 24

BUTCH

“BOB, LOOK, I need to get that order in by the end of the day. Do whatever you have to do, okay? Call me back.” Butch slid his phone into his work vest and finished walking the perimeter of the house, noticing the guys hadn’t done the job he normally required for cleaning up before going home for the day.

Through the slats, he saw they were all gathered around something. When Jack stepped out of the way, Ava appeared, sitting on a pile of wood. Butch checked his watch. He was going to have to get Ava home. She’d been out here with him all day, and he’d realized around noon, when her cheeks began glowing like hot steel, that he hadn’t put any sunscreen on her.

He pulled out his notepad and was jotting some to-do notes when he suddenly heard a catcall. He sighed. As a general rule, the guys didn’t catcall when Butch was around—they knew he hated it—so he imagined this must’ve been one hot woman walking by.

Except to his amazement, it turned out not to be. Hot. Or a girl. It was a boy, about Ava’s age, riding by on his bike. Butch gripped the beam next to him as he realized the catcall had come from Ava.

The guys were high-fiving and knuckle-bumping her as Butch rushed over, trying not to be in a rage but basically in a rage. “What’s going on here?”

The smile dropped off Jack’s face. “Nothing, Butch. We’re just having some fun.”

Half of them stuffed their hands in their pockets while the other half found something interesting to look at in the sky.

“Ava,” Butch said sternly, “why don’t you leave these guys alone? They’ve got to get back to work.”

“Fine,” Ava groaned and walked next to him, dragging her feet and falling a little behind. She took off her yellow hat and threw it to the side, then said over her shoulder, “Steven, let me know what happens this weekend.”

Steven gave her a thumbs-up.

“Did you know that Steven’s proposing to his girlfriend on Saturday?” Ava asked.

Butch took off his belt and put it in the bed of his truck as he glanced toward Steven. “No. That’s cool.”

“Right?” She grinned, then spit, except it only drooled down her chin. “I’m working on that.”

“Ava, stop that,” Butch groaned. Tippy was walking toward them, so Butch opened the passenger side of the truck. “Hop in. I’ll be there in a minute.”

He went to the other side, stuck the keys in, and turned on the air, in hopes of keeping Ava from rolling down the window and eavesdropping as she liked to do. “Here,” he said, handing over his cell phone. “You can play on this for a second.”

“Thanks!”

Butch took a few steps from the truck, peering around to see if any other guys were nearby. Tippy was doing the same thing. It looked like a drug deal was about to go down.

“Did you make all the arrangements?” Butch asked.

“Yeah,” Tippy whispered. “Daphne is going to watch Ava.

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