Southern Storms by Cherry Brittainy

Author:Cherry, Brittainy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BCherry Books, INC
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

17

Jax

“Time out, rewind. Deep breaths. You’re telling me, we are diving into the world of landscaping?” Connor asked as he sat at my table eating the pizza I ordered for us. He didn’t know the pizza was a bribe yet. Normally, I would’ve made him kale chips and a protein shake.

He shoved the pizza into his mouth, unaware of where this conversation was about to go. “Holy shit—”

“Language,” I order.

“Holy balls!”

“Not much better.”

“No, don’t you see, Jax? This is great! Everyone knows my lucky number is three, which is exactly what this next business venture will be for me! I’ll have three businesses before I’m even eighteen. How many businesses did Bill Gates have at seventeen? I bet you it wasn’t three, that’s for sure.”

“Seeing how you only have one business up and running, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.”

“Yeah, okay, partner. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge,” he said, bumping me in the shoulder. “Do you want me to come up with a name for the business? Maybe have me make up some business cards and taglines? How about this? We trim your bushes and fertilize your soil? Oh! Oh! Or Two Men and a Hoe?”

“Connor. Hold your hustle. We’re not starting a landscaping company. We are just helping out a woman who fired Lars.”

“Lars,” he grumbled. “Our competition.”

I wasn’t even going to dive deeper into why Lars wasn’t our competition, seeing how we didn’t have a landscaping company. It wasn’t even worth talking about. “One job, and then we are done, you got it? I called you over to look at the blueprints I drew up. I picked up some layouts of the property, and we have pretty much free rein on what we can do with it.”

Kennedy’s only request? Daisies, and blue flowers.

I couldn’t help but smirk at the blue flowers request—it was for sure a request to drive the nosy, judgmental neighbors insane. That seemed very much like the old Kennedy I knew. She never put up with people’s opinions.

Connor rubbed his hands together. “Let’s use the most expensive material to drive up costs. Also, speaking of costs, how much are we charging for this project? Because knowing you, you’re probably lowballing us. You really need to up your plumbing prices sooner than later. You are an artist when it comes to those pipes, Jax, and if you undervalue yourself, so will the rest of the world.”

I never rolled my eyes harder. “We’re not charging for this project.”

His eyes widened, and he tilted his head in disbelief. “Uh, come again?”

“We’re doing it as a favor.”

He laughed. Connor laughed so hard that he bent over and grabbed his sides as he fell into a complete snickering fit. “Oh my gosh, my mom always says I need to clean the wax out of my ears. So, forgive me for hearing you wrong, so can you repeat how much I’m getting paid for this gig?”

“Nada. Nichts. Nothing. It’s a passion project.”

“My passion, Jax, is money.”

I sighed as I pinched the bridge of my nose.

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