“Not a chance.”
“Even if you should?”
“Sabrina.”
“The night I met Grey in Hawaii, I was on a mission to do good deeds everywhere I could to balance out my karma.”
“That’s a thing you do?” Laney interrupts.
I huff out a sigh. “I doplentyof good.”
“I know, but not usually in the name of karma. It’s usually just because it’s the right thing to do and you can’t help yourself when it comes to doing the right thing for the Tooth.”
“Fair enough. But Ineededto do it for karma that night.”
She nods. “Okay. I get that.”
“What I’m thinking of doing is basically the opposite of that and really pushes some boundaries beyond what any normal, rational person should ever do.”
That might be extreme.
But I don’t actually think it is.
Laney flexes her brows at me. “So this is the nuclear option?”
Basically. And I feel like an ass for considering it when I don’t think Grey’s abad guy. I don’t know what Chandler did to him, but I know it wassomething. There has to be another way to make it right besides destroying Bean & Nugget. “The only other idea I have involves blackmailing Kurtis into letting me have his Main Street storefront for opening my own coffee shop, and I really don’t want to piss off the only chiropractor in town.” And yes, that was Grey’s idea, and I know it’s not a bad idea.
It’s just not agoodidea.
Bean & Nugget has my family’s blood, sweat, and tears built into it.
And it truly is the best real estate downtown.
Laney blinks slowly. “You have blackmail material on Kurtis?”
“No.”
I say it so fast and vehemently, Theo pops his head out of the kitchen and eyeballs me.
Laney winces.
“Is thatnorelated to you getting off gossip after you told your boss all of the Tooth’s gossip?” Theo asks.
“I told him,” Laney whispers.
“As you should’ve,” I reply. “Don’t keep secrets from each other on my behalf. Also, sorry, Theo, I’m positive he knows that you’re Mr. Snuffleupagus and that you strip at a nightclub in Denver three nights a week.”
“Mr. Snuffleupagus.” Theo grins. “Guy has a long…trunk. I like it.”
“It wasn’t an intentional flattery,” I assure him. “I thought he wouldn’t put it together since Snuffy’s so fluffy and you wax your chest.”
Laney laughs so hard, she almost falls off the couch, which earns me more of a glare from Theo than accusing him of waxing his chest would ever provoke on its own.
“There anyone who needs a warning about what he might know?” he asks.
Like it’s that easy. “I changed details.”
Theo shakes his head. “I don’t underestimate people who make a fuckton of money while saving a little part of the world. Means they’re smart.”
