Holding Out: Returning Home Book 4 by Serena Bell

Author:Serena Bell [Bell, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“Seriously, asshat?” Nate’s voice rang out from the doorway.

Griff was perched on the highest legit step of the ladder, screwing an LED lightbulb into the overhead socket. Jake had asked him to go around and change over as many of the old-style lightbulbs to LED as he could to try to save the resort some money on electricity. It wasn’t fun work, but it was satisfying, and the best thing about working at R&R was that no matter how menial the task was, it was always in the service of a greater good.

Unfortunately, CJ was also up on a ladder, on the other side of the room. Griff had been going out of his way to give the kid odd jobs, both because he knew how much it had helped him early on to feel part of R&R in that way, and because he figured an opportunity might come up to dig a little deeper into the driving thing. But—yeah, not the best timing, because at the sound of Nate’s voice, CJ had turned his head and was watching them both intently. Since Griff was pretty sure he knew what Nate was about to tear into him about, he didn’t exactly need an audience, and especially not CJ.

Nate leaned against the doorframe, his body language casual, but Griff could see the tension in the lines of his face. “Dude, seriously? On my living room couch? With Becca?”

“Becca?” CJ said, in the tone of someone who’d just been shot from behind by a teammate.

Griff gave him an apologetic glance. Well, mostly apologetic. He wasn’t going to apologize for winning fair and square, or for doing his level best to make Becca’s first time one to remember.

“Can you give us a minute?” Nate asked CJ, and to his credit, CJ did—although he aimed one more wounded glance over his shoulder at Griff.

Griff climbed down the ladder. He wasn’t going to do this from ten feet over Nate’s head. He’d face the music like a man.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Nate demanded, once Griff was standing on the floor in front of him. “Because if you hurt her, I will remove your insides with a teaspoon.”

“What is it with you guys and Becca?” Griff shot back. “She doesn’t need you to fight her battles. She knows what she wants. She’s tougher than you think she is. And before you get all up in my business, who says I started this?”

“I don’t give a shit who started it. You were the one with your bare ass on my couch.”

“My ass was never in contact with your couch,” Griff said, because he couldn’t quite figure out what he did want to say, and that seemed like a point that needed to be made clear.

“Good, because then I’d really have to disembowel you,” Nate said, reasonably. “And I know you weren’t the one who started it. Alia told me that Becca asked you to help her out with her little problem and you jumped like a dog for a cookie.

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