Annoyed At First Sight (Gator Bait MC Book 4) by Lani Lynn Vale

Author:Lani Lynn Vale [Vale, Lani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lani Lynn Vale
Published: 2023-02-27T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

I’m hot, but I’m also not a full-time hot person. I’m hot when I want to be. I choose my own hours. I make my own schedule. I do freelance hotness.

-Alice to Cassius

ALICE

The last customer was out the door, and I was finally able to lock up.

It was well past ten in the evening, and I was so ready to fall into bed that I could practically feel the sheets against my skin.

Today had been long, drawn out, and exhausting.

“Sure would be really nice if my sister could figure out how not to be so stupid,” I muttered to myself.

I stomped up the steps, kicked my brother’s door on the way past, and headed to my own place.

The apartment door closed behind me with a slam, and I had just enough energy to lock it, head to the kitchen, and sit down at the counter.

Luckily, I’d left the Fruit Loops out, meaning I didn’t have to starve. Because I wouldn’t be moving for a solid eight hours if I could help it.

I dumped a generous portion of the cereal out on the counter and absently started to separate the colors into separate piles.

“Do you think I’m weird, Cassius?”

Though he wasn’t here, I honestly wondered if he’d think I was a weirdo. I couldn’t be the only person that liked to separate my colors out of my meals before I ate them. Green was always first. Because green generally meant ‘good’ and ‘good’ didn’t always taste that way.

Red and orange were next, followed by yellow and blue.

When there was nothing left on the counter but fruit loop dust, I swept it onto the floor. Then shuffled to my bed, where I collapsed face first.

I was out within seconds.

Sadly, I woke up what felt like a minute and a half later to my cell phone shrilly ringing next to my face.

I blindly reached for it and answered it before I could think.

“Darlin’,” Dad said. “You awake?”

I squinted at the clock and noticed that I’d gotten a whole lot more sleep than I’d realized. “Barely.”

“Can you go fuel up the sheriff’s department boat?”

Dad’s words caused a moan to leave my throat. “Really?”

Or more like a whine and not a moan.

“Really,” he said, sounding forlorn. “I’m so sorry.”

I groaned and pushed myself up to my knees, then crawled off the bed. “I’ll be down in an hour.”

“Alice.” He chuckled. “They’re already there.”

Of course they were. Because why else would Dad be so urgent?

I sighed. “All right, all right. You so owe me for this.”

Grandpa taking care of our grandmother meant that we were definitely all running low on help, time and energy.

I couldn’t take that out on my dad.

“I’m headed down now,” I promised.

If I could get my stupid feet to start working, that was.

At least, I thought, it was the sheriff’s department. That gave me a little feeling of safety.

“I’m so sorry,” Dad said. “I’m still here at The Pizzeria. We had an oven mishap, followed by a drain mishap. Needless to say, this night has been a night from hell.

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