Work Me Up: Riggs Brothers, Book 3 by Julie Kriss

Author:Julie Kriss [Kriss, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Fifteen

Ryan

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The last customer of the day had left, and I locked the door behind her. I walked into the front office of Riggs Auto Two and picked up my T-shirt, pulling it on over my head. I was shrugging on my hoodie when my phone rang.

It was Luke. “What’s up?” I said when I answered.

“Come to the house after work,” Luke said. “Emily and I want to talk to everyone.”

“What about?”

“Show up and find out.”

I shrugged. “Fine, but I have to tell Kate I’ll be late. Anything else?”

“Jace and I have run the numbers,” Luke said. “Riggs Auto Two is making good money so far.”

This should have made me feel good—I’d only been in business for three weeks—but instead I felt nothing. Probably because the reason I’d made money was because I had to strip my shirt off for most of the day. It wasn’t because of my auto repair skills. I was good, just as good as my brothers, but I tended to get the easy work—busted taillights, flat tires, fluid top-ups. Mindless stuff, because everyone assumed I was good-looking and brainless.

What would happen if I just fixed cars with my shirt on? Would the business make as much money? Because after that hot, mind-blowing session in the laundry room with Kate five days ago, taking my shirt off for strange women bothered me more than it should have.

If your body is what you have, you should respect it.

“So the place is making money,” I said to Luke as I pulled on a baseball cap. “So what?”

“We agreed that if the business is there, we’d hire you an assistant.”

“Yeah?” This, I was interested in. It was tiring me out, working six days a week, doing everything. “You’re going to find one?”

“We already hired him,” Luke said.

“What the fuck—that was fast. Is he good?”

Luke’s voice was weirdly cautious. “He’s good. And he’s available to start right away.”

I heard the loud blatt of a motor on the street outside the shop—someone who needed a new muffler. “Luke, what are you talking about?”

“Listen, Ryan. He knows what he’s doing and I think he’s trustworthy. He swears he’s going to do a good job. He probably means it.”

Now there were alarm bells going off in my head. The blatt of the motor was closer now, pulling into the parking lot. I had a feeling of impending doom, hearing that motor. But no. Luke and Jace wouldn’t do this to me. “He probably means it? Don’t say it, Luke. Just don’t.”

“It’ll be fine, I swear,” Luke said.

“Oh, Jesus. What did you do?”

But he didn’t have to tell me. I already knew. The loud motor in the parking lot cut out, and a car door slammed. A voice shouted, “Riggs!”

I hung up on Luke and dropped the phone on the desk. I walked to the door and opened it. “Oh, shit,” I said.

It was my brother Dex.

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