“Yeah. Let’s go have a look at what you’ve done, and we’ll go from there.”
He shot out of his chair and grinned. “Okay.”
Leo had actually done a fuckin’ great job. Better than anyone we’d ever had working here before and when I told him that, he grinned.
“Indy’s pretty specific on how she likes things,” he said. “We get bonus points when we do it right.”
“What do you get with your points?” I asked.
“Depends. Sometimes we get extra screen time, or we can have less chores or whatever. We earn points, then we can cash them in.”
I was finding myself more and more impressed with Indigo Walsh. She was young, just turned twenty-eight, and she’d taken a broken-down youth center and created a place for at-risk kids to feel safe and thrive. Who wouldn’t be impressed with that?
“That’s cool, bud,” I said.
He nodded. “She’s the coolest.”
“Jekyll,” Vanna called.
“Yeah?”
She peeked her head around the corner. “Leo’s ride’s here.”
I gave her a chin lift, then Leo and I headed back up to the front.
Indigo smiled and I felt it all the way in my dick. She only had eyes for Leo, however, rushing to him and squeezing his arm. “How’d it go?”
He leaned away from her touch. “I’ll tell you in the car.”
Indigo tensed and her eyes flew to me. “Everything okay?”
I nodded. “He did good.”
“It’s cool, Indy,” Leo said. “Can we go?”
“Yeah. ’Course.” She turned to me again. “Do you have his phone?”
“Oh, yeah.” I pulled open one of the drawers behind the desk and retrieved it, handing it to Leo. “I put my cell in there in case you need to reach me.”
He nodded. “Cool.”
Indigo took it from him, and Leo rolled his eyes as she dropped the phone into her purse.
“Tomorrow good?” I asked, and Leo lit up like a fuckin’ pinball machine.
Leo nodded. “Yeah.”
“I can’t bring you tomorrow, bud,” Indigo said.
“Grandpa Hugh can.”
“He’s got a date,” Indigo shared, which got her a couple of raised eyebrows from Leo. “What? He’s not dead, Leo, he’s sixty-five. He’s allowed to date.”
“Gross, but whatever,” he said. “I’ll take the bus.”
“Do you have money for the bus?” she asked.
His face dropped.
