Challenge accepted.
“We went to high school together,” she said, her hand landing in his. The heat again. Oh Lord, his skin was hot, his shake firm, which she appreciated he didn’t soften with her being a woman.
“We’ve seen each other a lot lately, it seems,” he said.
“Oh, really?” Grant asked. “How is that?”
She looked at the two Fierce men. She knew that look in their eyes.
If sparklers could start flaring behind their heads in a light bulb moment, that was exactly what it’d look like.
“First Jocelyn came into my pub for lunch last week. Then I’ve had two calls about her condo building.”
“You were there twice?” she asked. Was he the one staring at her a few days ago? “We’ve had three alarms in a week.”
“I wasn’t on for the other one,” he said.
She nodded her head. “Sounds like you’re a jack of all trades,” Garrett said. He was almost rubbing his hands together in glee.
“Why don’t we get started?” she asked. “I’m sure Chance has things to do like the rest of us.”
While Gabe talked about what he had planned, how big the structure would be, and the location, she tried not to stare at the complete male specimen in front of her.
The one who turned out damn well considering most didn’t think he’d graduate on time.
But she’d seen him at the ceremony, heard his name, then watched him walk down with a chip on his shoulder as if to say don’t count him out.
Turned out, he’d done pretty damn well for himself. His own business, a full-time firefighter. Not exactly the slacker everyone accused him of being.
Got her juices flowing more than any man had in over a decade too.
Oops, that thought got away from her.
“Just file the paperwork when you’re ready to go,” Chance said. “Or reach out with questions. Good to see you all again.”
He was looking at her when he said it.
“Yeah, you too,” she whispered.
“Did you see what I saw?”Grant asked Garrett the minute they were driving back to their office
“Hard not to see it,” Garrett said. “Gabe did too. Even Royce was laughing.”
“It didn’t help they were looking at Jocelyn and Chance and then back to us,” he said.
“Who cares?” Garrett said. “Everyone knows what we do. Not sure how we can have a hand in this but might as well put our heads together and see if we can give it a nudge.”
“We should be able to work something out somehow. Did you know Chance owned a pub?”
“Nope. I don’t keep up with those things,” Garrett said.
“Me neither. Doesn’t mean we can’t take our wives out to dinner one night and check it out though,” he said.
“And let the women feel as if they could have a part in this. They will want to put their seal of approval on any man we might think of.”
“There you go,” he said. “Looks like we’ve got a possibility. Diane has been having all the fun with Jax, but that seems to be going well.”
“Shhhh,” Garrett said. “No one is supposed to know how much we enjoy this.”
