Lyon – Chapter 5
That night I called my mom for our nightly chat. My mom is my sounding board whenever my mind becomes overcrowded.
“So how’s the new job sweetie, you like it?”
“It’s fine, mom, pretty easy, but guess what. So this guy calls today and he’s as rude as you want to be, he just rubbed me the wrong way you know, so I kinda let him have itª”
did what?”
, next thing I know he’s showing up there.”
you, did he baby
rs of a wildebeest, but guess what, he gave the boss a contract to supply him with bikes for all his ventures and apparently there are a ton of them.”
. He said he liked my style, and that’s why he finally decided to give Colton the contract.”
n, ooh……. first name basis a
Mo
.
re you having fun, baby?”
se.”
ing was bothering you, right?”
e. I like my new job, and Jared’s there which makes it easier. My truck’s almost ready, so I should have a little more freedom soon. Right now I’m pretty much stuck in the house, but that’s cool. Not much to do a
r.
iliar, but it was local.
s?”
und familiar, and not, at the same time?
e earlier today.”
, hi.”
g questions, please, please, please.
er from Jared, he’s such a good boy. Anyway I’m calling to invite you personally to our annual barbecue picnic on Monday. I know it’s short notice, but I didn’t know about you until today, so you can’t refuse.”
comes to my little get-togethers, and you’ll have a great time, great food, nice company; what more can you ask. Besides, it’ll be a great opportunity to meet the wives of the guys you work with, so it’ll be wonderful.”
y, and make a whole day and evening of it. If you need a ride that’s okay too. I can certainly arrange that for you, so we’re set then, yes?”
r. I hurried her off before she had me agreeing to God knows what, and for some unknown reason, my heart was beating unus
can I talk to you later?
rything okay?”
fine I just have to do something.”
lots of people. No wonder my heart was beating out of sync.
ffend the boss’s mother, so it’s sink or swim time.
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ELENA
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en a bit too brainy for his own good, but nothing beats a mother on the hunt for a daughter-in-law and grand babies.
t, Stacy had al
h he got his reputation as a cad if he wasn’t meeting girls.
er’s son after all.
is young in years but very smart, we’ll just wait and see. She sounded sweet as pi
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KAT
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king about it. It had been a while since I’d worn anything other than a gun
s
of me to go along with it that’s the problem.
nel shirts and some sweats. Classy Kat.
shock.
om the guys hung out in, and ate or played pool and video games, when they were having down time.
ay ‘bitches got shit to do sometimes, so their old man brings the kid in, and we take turns watching over the little tykes.’
Colton stood in front of them giving out orders for some upcoming riding event.
he looked down at his men like a king with his subjects, did something to me.
o bad he would eat me for breakfast and keep going.
d down my body before settling once m
your mind, Sl
Eeek, I just soiled my panti
arging him for those. A girl could only go through so ma
I think one of his hard glares is worst than a shout.
”
e line for the office.
eps tromping back to the shop.
was opened and you know who came in.
take your sexy eyes and bitable a*s on down the hall thank you ve
ng about now?”
Uh…e
tupid bun. If I wore my hair down, then I could hide behind it, but with my hair pulled back like this he could see my blush.
make you nervous or something?”
made me feel safe. I had no doubt it was because he was here. Weird.
n thought of it until now, but my dad and Jared were the only two males I’d been able to spend any time around without going into panic mode.
maybe, I was healing.
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COLT
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igure out what the hell is the issue. When she isn’t blushing like a medieval virgin, she’s tearing into someone or smiling for no damn reason.
trying to make me crazy?”
pe.”
She shook h
oing to start tallying up those sirs and hold them for future payment. Now was there something you needed before?”
e strange duck, and now he
yle.
ilting flower with split personality disorder, or whateve
on with you and Jared?”
to your lair.
up on the undertone of pissed off in my
ons I’d been up all night was because of that little byp
d and left before I made an even bigger a*s o
ose eyes of hers she didn’t really have anything going for her, and she wore her hair like an old school marm. Her clothes were less than anything approaching attractive, and she is nuts.
o why the f**k was she the only thing I could think of for the last twenty four hours? F*****g Jared.
a ride and clear my head. There was no point in staying around here with her so near, and I w