Sweet by Webber Tammara

Author:Webber, Tammara [Webber, Tammara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: contemporary romance
ISBN: 9780985661878
Publisher: Tammara Webber
Published: 2015-04-26T07:00:00+00:00

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Sixteen

Boyce

“Dude, your girlfriend is hot.”

That wasn’t something I’d ever expected to hear from a female employee—if I’d ever contemplated the idea of a female employee. If I had contemplated it, let’s just say she wouldn’t have been anything like the girl watching my roommate of seventy-two hours climb the steps to the front door.

Pearl had pulled up five minutes ago and parked her little import on the gravel drive next to my TA. She’d grabbed her backpack from the backseat and waved a hand as she crossed the yard, glancing back at Sam before turning toward the trailer. We hadn’t discussed my employee, and this was the first day she’d arrived home before Sam’s dad arrived to pick her up.

“She’s not my girlfriend.”

“What’re ya—blind?”

“I was.”

I said no more, hoping Sam would return to tightening lug nuts with that torque wrench. We’d wasted five minutes bickering about why she couldn’t use the pneumatic wrench to do it. (Because you need to learn how to tighten them using exact measurements first—by hand, I’d said. But the pneumatic is faster, she’d whined.) I finally stopped arguing with her and just stared until she started applying some elbow grease.

“Well, that’s cryptic¸” she said, arching one blond brow.

“My roommate is not up for discussion. Neither—as I’ve already made plain—is my sex life.”

“Or lack thereof.”

“Shut it.” Man. Silva must be laughing his ass off over pawning this kid off on me. “Tell me what you do if the threads are oiled instead of dry.”

She rolled her eyes so hard her head followed the movement. “Reduce the torque.”

“Good, genius. By how much?”

“Um, fifty percent.”

I laughed and she scowled. “Not unless you want this guy to lose his wheels heading down the highway and come back to cuss you straight into the gulf, if he comes back at all.”

“Hey, y’all need something to drink?”

Sam and I both turned toward Pearl’s voice. She was holding two cans of Pepsi.

“Thanks!” Sam said, smiling. The hell? With that blond hair poking in every direction, her face looked like a happy cartoon sun. I hadn’t known she could be happy. “I’m Sam, by the way.” Or friendly.

Pearl handed each of us a can and smiled back at Sam. “I’m Pearl. So Sam—you’re Wynn’s new employee?”

“Provisional employee,” I said, popping the top. “She’s got one more day to prove herself. I’m still on the fence.”

Sam’s eyebrows shot toward each other like magnets and her mouth tightened into a knot. If she’d had laser vision, I’d have been sliced up one side and down the other. Leaning halfway out of her chair, she plunked the can on the concrete and put all her effort behind that torque wrench, fighting to keep from smarting off to me in front of Pearl.

Pearl caught my eye with a tiny shame on you shake of her head and that damned smirk I’d do almost anything to set off.

I tipped the can back with a quick wink, taking a long swallow to hide my grin from Sam.

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