House Of Payne: Twist by Stacy Gail

Author:Stacy Gail [Gail, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stacy Gail
Published: 2015-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“For the first time in a week, I’m actually a kind of curious about what’s happening at the House.”

“Really? It’s taken you this long?” Joey’s pale brows went up as he came out of the sliding patio door carrying a bag of charcoal. With an unexpected afternoon off from work, he was dressed casually in a blue checked button down shirt, dark gray chino shorts, white web belt and pristine white canvas Vans. Novak, in ripped jeans, wash-faded Harley Davidson T-shirt and barefoot, was at the shiny new grill he’d just assembled, while Angel kept him company and tried to help by reading aloud from the manual. But Novak had largely ignored her, telling her in no uncertain terms that no man worth his salt listened to an instruction book, especially when it came to something like putting together a grill. “Maybe you really are done with that place.”

“I don’t know if I am or not,” Angel said honestly, then tried mightily not to grin at how Novak was scowling at two extra nuts, bolts and washers left over from his “fully assembled” grill. “All I know is that it’s been great being away from all that tension. It was almost worth getting a concussion just to get out of there and enjoy life for a bit.”

“Been there, done that, and trust me, the brain cell die-off isn’t worth a repeat performance.” With an air of a man choosing to not worry about pesky little things like details, Novak shrugged at his extra grill pieces and tossed them into the large box they came in. “What’s cool is that you’re getting the itch to go back. That’s a sure sign of healing, Ange.”

“I don’t know if I’ve got the itch to go back, but I sure wouldn’t mind being a fly on the wall at House Of Payne this afternoon.”

“Why?” With a patient sigh Joey fished the hardware back out of the box and pocketed them, no doubt readying himself for a future redo of barbecue assembly. “What’s going on this afternoon?”

“Payne’s called a basic, run-of-the-mill press conference to shine a spotlight on the new concierge service that’s starting up on Monday. Only nothing is ever basic or run-of-the-mill when Twist has been summoned to be put on display. He usually sits there like a smoldering volcano, waiting to tell some reporter how stupid their question is.”

“Nice.” Joey snorted, but Novak lifted a shoulder.

“I feel for the guy, because we’re pretty much in the same boat. The press is a necessary evil in my line of work. They get the word out that something’s going on with the team—a big game or whatever—then they do human interest stories to make the players more approachable to the public. All that publicity puts asses in stadium seats, which in turn gets me a paycheck. But I fucking hate those dog-and-pony shows, because you’ve always got some jumped-up jack-off wanting to be the next ESPN superstar. Inevitably these amateur-hour dickheads ask dumbass

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