Mischief and the Mechanic: A small town marriage of convenience romance (The Everette Series Book 3) by Alina Lane

Author:Alina Lane [Lane, Alina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Von Rips Publishing
Published: 2025-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Music is playing by the time we finish the official photos. The girls arranged for us to have a photographer, and I absolutely want photographic evidence of the day I made Andy mine. She breaks off from me to greet some of the women from her monthly business meetings, and I’m quickly swallowed up by well wishes from Dawn and my employees from the shop.

“Well I’ll be fucking damned. It wasn’t a lark,” Clancy says, his arm in a sling, bottle of beer lifting toward his mouth. I invited him and Angel to the wedding when I stopped by his house to check on him this week.

“Hey, man. How’re you doing?”

“This thing is fucking annoying.” He shrugs his good shoulder.

“I’m sorry,” I say, not knowing what else to say. He got hurt because the shop wasn’t safe for him to work in. The ever-present thought racks me with guilt. It’s one thing for me to work in less-than-ideal circumstances, it’s completely different for me to expect my employees to do the same.

The only comfort is that if Andy has her way—and she likely will because I’ll give that woman anything she wants—that’ll all change soon.

“Eh, man. It was an accident, could have happened to anyone. You covering the hospital bills and making sure I’m still getting paid is really helping, so don’t sweat it, okay?”

I pulled funds from my savings account to make sure he, Angel, and the kids were taken care of. I’ll be damned if they feel the financial pinch of him being out of work because of my negligence.

Samson nods to me from where he’s talking to Finch. The two of them are close friends, so I assumed he’d be here.

I catch a bit of their conversation as I make my way toward them.

“No one’s happy about it, man, but we still have to do it.”

Of all the Calhouns, Finch and I have the most interaction with Samson. Finch’s base of operations for his handyman and exterminating business is his house, to get a tax break on his mortgage, so he has to subject himself to inspections.

I haven’t even thought to ask him what the new specifications are going to make him do to the big ass barn-like shed he has in the backyard where he stores all of his chemicals.

“Hey, Samson, Finch giving you a hard time?” I ask.

“Hardly.” Finch scoffs. “I am a motherfucking delight to work with.”

Samson chuckles and shakes his head. “Yeah, you’re a one-man operation out of your backyard. Jedd has multiple full-time employees in a commercial building. I’d be worried if you were harder to work with.”

I laugh at that. It’s not that Finch’s business is less important than mine, but I tend to have more to manage than he does.

“Any luck on the lot?” Samson asks me.

I shrug. “I’m working on it. The second I solidify it, I’ll let you know. But even if I do get it, it’s gonna be months before I can fully reopen, even with expediting the building process.

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