Fire Me Up by Kimberly Kincaid

Author:Kimberly Kincaid [Kincaid, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Teagan stared at the screen of her laptop, shifting her weight in the ancient desk chair in the Double Shot’s office for the ninetieth time this hour. Her back muscles gripped her spine with unforgiving tension, throbbing out a dare to surrender with every move, and she popped the lid off the bottle of ibuprofen at her elbow. This morning’s dose had gotten her through a two-hour planning session with her father and the manager at the Cold Creek Brewery, as well as grueling kitchen prep and a liquor delivery. But they were coming up on the dinner shift, and even though Mondays were usually slow, she needed all the strength she could muster if she was going to run the kitchen with Adrian.

Adrian, who had seen right through every wall she’d ever cemented around herself in self-preservation. Adrian, who she’d essentially flung herself at last night in an attack of needy weakness.

Adrian, who’d all but run from the building the second she got close to him.

“Hey, boss. You got a second?” Brennan’s voice tipped Teagan out of her reverie, and she bolted upright despite the screeching from her back at the movement.

“Absolutely,” she said, pasting a smile over the grimace welling up on her face. “Is everything okay downstairs?”

A shot of panic clipped through Teagan’s veins, but Brennan cut it off with a quick nod of his dark head.

“Oh yeah, everything’s fine. Gigantor’s actually pretty tight with the management stuff. You were right when you said he knows what he’s talking about.”

“Good.” Although Brennan had never really been the type to buck authority and go territorial over the bar, Teagan had to admit a sense of relief at how seamlessly he and Adrian had fallen into rhythm. She’d even been able to put all the bar inventory in Brennan’s now-capable hands, as well as the scheduling for the waitstaff. “So, what’s up?”

“Nothing major. I just, ah . . . I know you’re planning on doing most of the cooking for the street fair outside, right?”

She nodded. “The fire code limits how many people we can have inside the building at any given time, and we have room on the south side of the lot to set up some tents and tables to go with the entertainment. Hosting as much of the event as possible outside the actual building accommodates more people in the long run, so yes. That’s probably what we’ll do, once I figure out the insane regulations for the equipment.” She’d tried to wade through the fire code, but the damn thing read more like secret code.

“Right.” Brennan skated a palm over the back of his neck. “I can help you with the setup. You know, making sure all the cooking stations are up to code per the fire regs.”

“That’s a ton of research. And let’s just say this thing isn’t exactly user-friendly.” Teagan gestured to the three inches of fire code manual sitting on her father’s desk like the world’s thickest doorstop. She’d already come

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