Borrowing Trouble by Stacy Finz

Author:Stacy Finz [Finz, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Hey, boss, Lina just called. Her truck broke down on State Highway 70, near Chilcoot. She needs a tow. You want me to go out?”

Griffin only hesitated for a second. “Nah, I’ll get her.”

“You’ve got her cell phone number, right?” Rico’s lips curved up in a smart-ass smile.

Griffin flipped him the bird. “Hold down the fort while I’m gone, will you?”

They had two oil changes and three appointments for smog checks. Not bad for a Monday. At three, Griff had a meeting with a Sacramento lobbyist who wanted a custom bike. He had a cabin up here and had seen some of Griff’s work at the car show in Clio last month. That left him plenty of time to get Lina and haul her Scout back home. He grabbed a set of keys from his office, hopped into the cab of one of his tow trucks, and got on the road, not liking the idea of Lina stranded alone.

Despite the winter’s lack of snow, his tow business did a booming business. This time last year, most of his calls had been weather-related accidents and cars stuck in the mud or snow. This year, not a lot of snow but plenty of breakdowns. Good thing he’d purchased the tow trucks against Owen’s advice. The old man thought selling fish bait would be the secret to Griff’s success. The barber wasn’t exactly Jeff Bezos.

It took Griffin thirty minutes to reach Lina’s truck, marooned on a barren stretch of high desert just past Chilcoot. He pulled ahead of the Scout, managing to weave around two telephone poles. Lina got out of the truck and rested her arms on Griffin’s open window.

“Thanks for coming.”

“No problem. What happened?”

“It started to sputter a few miles back like it was running out of gas. I pulled over here and the engine went dead. It said I had half a tank. But maybe my gas gauge isn’t working.”

Griff doubted it. The ancient truck had seen too many miles and was ready to go to that great junkyard in the sky. “Let’s haul her in and check ’er out. Hop in and get out of the cold.”

Lina got in on the passenger side while Griff adjusted his boom to get his tow chain as close as he could. He got out, fastened the chain and hook to the Scout’s axle, and got back in the cab. With the boom, he lifted the Scout’s two front tires onto the back of his truck and hung a U-turn on the highway.

“Sorry you had to wait out here by yourself.”

“No big deal. I would’ve called Rhys, but he and Maddy are on their way home from San Francisco.”

“You coming from school?”

“Mm-hmm. I don’t have any more classes this week and Brady wants me to help prep for the wedding. I’ll be screwed without a car.”

“Let’s see what we can do.” He absently brushed her leg with his hand. “Don’t remember you ever wearing pantyhose before.”

“I interviewed for a summer internship today with an engineering firm that builds suspension bridges.

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