Sebastian_Risking Forever by Tara Gallina

Author:Tara Gallina [Gallina, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

My resistance isn't what it used to be.

I pace the length of my office at the auto body shop. From the white leather couch at one end past two white swivel chairs that face my desk and then back.

"Don't do it." Carlos enters the office, a red towel with grease stains slung over his shoulder.

I stop by the coffee table in front of the couch and face him. "You heard the guys." I gesture in the direction of the shop. My office, two others, the storage room and the bathrooms make up the left half of the warehouse while the huge four-story high area with steel, roll-up garage doors dominates the right half. "They're not answering the phones anymore and to be honest I don't want them to. They're messing up the schedule, and the inventory hasn't been done in a month."

"Sí, man. I understand. But an outsider? Not a good idea." He shakes his head and runs a hand over his round belly. Latin Santa is what the guys call him.

"I know it's a bad idea, but it's the only one I have." Out of all the inquiries for the job, not a single applicant can do Excel. I don't have the time or patience to train anyone either. I know Ainsley can do it because her file from Eric said she took a class one summer on Word applications. "She's the only qualified applicant. Besides, I don't see this being long-term. She needs the money and will move on as soon as she finds something better." I'm sure of it.

I stalk to my desk and sit in the big leather chair.

Carlos stares out the large windows that overlook the enclosed parking lot. An electric fence topped with barbed wire surrounds the building and land. My uncle had it installed after a break-in by some locals. It wasn't an active business at the time. Just a place he used to have work done on his car collection.

"If you don't have anyone else, then I don't know, man. Carajo. This is screwed up."

"Yeah. It is. I'll keep her safe though."

Carlos pins me with a concerned gaze. "See, that right there says you’re already too close to this chick. I don’t like it. But it's your call, and we do need someone to answer the damn phones before I lose my hair over the stress they're causing me." He sighs.

"I don't want you stressed, Carlos. You're my guy. Without you, this place doesn't work. Let me take care of this. Don't worry about it anymore. Okay?"

His dark eyes hold mine for a long moment, then his phone goes off with some Spanish song. He pulls it from his pocket. "It's the wife. I gotta take it."

"Go." I wave for him to leave. "I got this."

"Hola, Mommy?" He steps into the hallway and turns left, headed for his office.

I pull up Ainsley's number that I entered in my phone after she left last Thursday night. It should have been a clue that I'd cave.

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