Super Nova (Hot Rods #3) by Jayne Rylon

Author:Jayne Rylon [Jayne Rylon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Despite his best efforts to coax her out, Nola had evaded being alone with Kaige for almost two days. Either by chance or by design, he couldn’t tell. Could she sense that he intended to corner her in the hopes of pressing things beyond their professional boundaries? After the puppy fiasco Thursday, everyone had given up on work for the last few hours of the day.

On top of that, when Nola spied her car on the lift she’d been thrilled until he declined her offer to take the parts and labor out of her bill. Like hell he would.

Eventually she’d graciously accepted his help, thanking him with a kiss that could have become a lot more steamy if Buster McHightops hadn’t chosen that moment to scurry between them and piss on Kaige’s boot. A love/hate relationship had sprouted between him and the mutt.

Of course all the other Hot Rods had thought the antics hysterical. And while Kaige was upstairs changing, Nola had slipped away. Maybe the intensity between them had frightened her or maybe it had been the rest of her employers catching them sucking face that had shoved her out of arm’s reach during business hours. Because ever since then the week had flown by with their consultant keeping her cute head buried in her laptop, pounding out the details of her presentation.

How the hell much could she be doing? Enough to warrant even coming in on the weekend to keep trucking, he supposed.

She wouldn’t let him see her progress until the thing was finished. Of course, that meant she was constantly around, if out of reach behind her expert demeanor. They’d shared meals together, played with the new shop mascot, hung out near the water cooler on breaks and chatted about everything and nothing in between his jobs and her work.

At night, they continued their email exchanges. Nola was like no pen pal he’d ever imagined. It seemed as though the distance between them made it easier to talk about their pasts and their hopes for the future. In person, their discussions never took on half the weight of their correspondence.

He found he liked both sides of her. The serious professional and the vulnerable woman who understood so much about the events that had shaped him. She’d never once judged him. He believed his secrets would be safe in her hands. Something he rarely could say about people other than the Hot Rods.

By Saturday afternoon, Kaige had played it as cool as he could manage. He plopped into the shitty folding chair in Nola’s makeshift office, rocked it onto its back legs, locked his hands behind his head and crossed his ankles on the table. The flash of heat her semi-covert scan inspired curled his toes in his boots.

“You’re going to break your neck, fool.” She seemed genuinely disturbed, despite her acerbic barb. Somehow she knew how to reach him. Just like the gang, who used endless taunts—borne of love—to communicate their concern.

“Nah. I’m not flying off to heaven until you escort me there.

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