Larkspur Road by Jill Gregory

Author:Jill Gregory [Gregory, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9781101568972
Google: f1P5VN-7kuoC
Amazon: B005ZOBNZ2
Barnesnoble: B005ZOBNZ2
Goodreads: 13482758
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Leaning back in his desk chair on Monday, Travis held his cell phone to his ear and listened to his old friend Marcus Belmont bullshitting about how he deserved a half-million-dollar finder’s fee for referring five guys who would be ideal recruits for Tanner Security. Outside the window of Travis’s Oak Street office, it was a busy afternoon in Lonesome Way.

A few boys about Grady’s age played catch in the park. An elderly couple shuffled from the Toss and Tumble Laundromat with a basket of folded laundry clutched between them. Chatty young mothers pushed their babies on swings near the rock garden in the park.

Three blocks down, on Main, he could see people flowing in and out of Benson’s Drugstore. He heard ranch hands calling to each other in greeting as they paused outside the hardware store or parked their trucks down the street from Tobe’s Mercantile.

Through the open window he saw Sheriff Hodge amble out of Pepper Rony’s Pizza with a carry-out box, and a bunch of teenage boys jostling and shoving and goofing off outside the Lickety Split Ice Cream Parlor.

He was sure that, a few blocks over, A Bun in the Oven was bustling with people munching on cinnamon buns, sour cream coffee cake, and fresh baked cookies as they sipped specialty teas and cappuccinos.

He’d be headed there himself soon to pick up Grady. He’d left him sitting at one of the smaller booths in the rear of the bakery with his backpack, a comic book, a handheld video game, a roast beef sandwich on sourdough, and a peanut butter cookie.

Sophie and her grandmother, who helped her run the bakery, and Brittany, who’d been working the cash register and mentioned something about Mia spending the morning preparing for the tutoring session, had all promised to look after him.

Glancing at his watch, Travis realized it was almost two. He needed to get Grady over to Mia’s house pronto.

“Yeah, yeah, in your next life,” he interrupted Marcus, unable to keep from grinning. Marcus Belmont, a forty-one-year-old, six-foot, four-inch former Navy SEAL who’d retired from the Secret Service the previous February, was a master at the art of bullshitting. “Tell them to call me and I’ll set up a video meeting. If I hire even two of them, I’ll buy you dinner at the Golden Fox the next time I make it back to Georgetown. Maybe five, six years from now. At the earliest.”

He laughed at Marcus’s reply. The guy should get a medal for being able to string that many four-letter words together in a single sentence.

“Yeah, more than a dozen clients lined up already. Some real heavy hitters,” he told Marcus, one eye on his watch. “So I need guys who can get off to a running start by the end of the month. One client is headed to Greece for that economic summit and needs round-the-clock protection for six weeks minimum. I’ll let you know the details tomorrow. Sure thing, get back to me in the morning.

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