“What the hell is this?” she asked making her cute nose turn up.
“Almost forty percent of this job is paper work. We have to not only go through applications, make sure we have the necessary details to approve the bail bond agreement, but we serve legal documents to the applicants as well. Twenty percent of the time is spent going to court, and the rest of the forty percent is used for hunting those who try to jump their bail bond agreement. This is the perfect place to start.”
“Seriously?”
Drake fought not to laugh at the look of disappointment on her pretty face. “Yes, really.”
“Fine, what do I do first?”
“Go through the applications and make sure all the required fields are filled in. Separate them from those that are incomplete. Then you can work on the incomplete ones and call the applicants to get the information you need.”
“This could take all day.”
“Sometimes it does.”
“Well, do I at least get my own desk and computer to use?”
Drake glanced around the space. “Dugger left two weeks ago, but his desk hasn’t been cleaned out. If you want to do that first, then you can start working on the applications.”
She glared at him but stood up. “Where’s the desk at?”
“It’s there, the second one from the men’s bathroom.” It wasn’t the best location, but at least he could keep an eye on her from his own desk. He almost told her to wait when he noticed how cluttered the desktop was.
“What do I do with all the files?”
“I’ll get you a rolling file cart. Put everything that is work related on the top. Any personal items can go in a box that we’ll ship to Dugger later.”
Jinx nodded, walked over to the desk, and started straightening things up. It was going to take her hours. Dugger was known to be a real slob. Drake almost felt sorry for her. Maybe he could give her enough boring tasks that she would give up and move back to wherever she came from. That sounded like a great plan.
*****
Several hours later
Jinx wanted to kill Dugger. The guy had left his desk a disaster. She should write him a bill for having to clean his shit up. He had everything from applications he never completed to wrappers of candy bars and something that she was not quite sure was legal for helping increase the size of a male’s penis. Who the hell kept that shit in their desk? She didn’t want anyone else to see her handling that thing, so she grabbed a trash bag and wrapped it good before lifting it out of the desk drawer. She needed to look for sanitizer immediately.
“Are you ready?” Drake asked, standing to the side of the desk.
“Ready for what?”
“I have to go pick up my rental hover truck, thought you might like to come with me to get some lunch.”
“I can’t leave right now, but I’ll grab something later.”
“Do you want me to bring you something back?”
She shook her head, “No thanks.”
Watching him walk away, she couldn’t help but admire Drake’s ass in those jeans. Damn, he was sexy and dangerous to a girl’s libido. Looking down at the desk that was only halfway cleaned, she regretted not leaving with him. This guy Dugger better not come back, or she would have quite a few words to say to him about cleanliness.
Another hour passed, and finally she was done cleaning the desk. Jinx got sanitizer and sprayed everything. The desk actually gleamed. She went over to grab the paperwork from Drake’s desk and started working on it. The sorting was pretty easy, eventually she got lost in the work. It wasn’t that bad. She was so caught up in what she was doing that she hadn’t noticed when Drake came back, or that some of the bounty hunters were leaving for the day.
“Jinx, are you going to the club tonight?” Isaac asked, leaning a hip on the edge of her desk.
Jinx stopped what she was doing to look up at the sexy IT guy. “I promised Vic I would, so yeah I’ll be there. Are you going?”
“Yep. I have to head out to do a few things, but save me a dance.”
Jinx felt heat rise to her cheeks. “Okay.” Feeling eyes on her, she glanced over at Drake. He looked down at his computer, but not before she saw an angry expression on his face. What the hell was that about?
