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"Humph." His happy meds were clearly wearing off. Or he shouldn't be mixing them with alcohol.
"Okay, so can I get you anything before I go? I need to get back to Lux. There's a collection of bikes coming in, and I want to be there to help. But we've got this." I tucked my hands in my front pockets.
Clint eyed me with a constricting gaze. "We, is it? This Lux and you." He set his beer on the little end table and threaded his hands together. "You fucking her too?"
"Don't be a dick." I'd had enough of his sulking antics. He was the one who had gone out in dangerous weather, and now he was paying the price. "Everything will still be as you left it. Just get better and don't worry about anything. You have a financial stake in the business, and I've always valued your partnership. Your time off doesn't change that." I wanted to ask him how much to buy him out but knew now wasn't the time. He needed to be reassured.
"Whatever. Just don't piss her off. She'll likely screw everything up, and then your business will really be a mess."
"Right," I said, biting the inside of my cheek. "Later, Clint. I'll check on you in a day or two."
As I left, I knew more than ever that I didn't want everything to go back to how it was before. The thought of life without Lux made me feel sick inside. The only thing I could do now was spend as much time with Lux as possible.
* * *
Her cheeks were flushedwhen I got back to the office, her ponytail now wound up in a sexy as anything messy bun.
"What's up? I thought you were going home for lunch," I said from the office door.
She was sitting on the floor by the filing cabinet with papers spread out all around her.
"I'm trying to make sense of these invoices. If I use the price list you gave me, they still aren't right even if I reduce it by a small percentage to account for price changes.
"What do you mean not right?" I crouched on the floor next to where she had her long slender legs folded.
"Every invoice is totaled for a different amount even when they have the same items on there."
"Well, maybe the parts cost different amounts. We can call a supplier who couriers the parts over. Verify that's the difference."
"But," she frowned, and it was damn cute. "A price difference of three hundred dollars? And one fifty for another. There can't be that much of a discrepancy."
"I appreciate your worrying about this and trying to figure it out. It'll all be okay." I lifted her chin with my finger.
"I'm worried for you. This isn't good business practice." A flash of frustration crossed her face.
It meant a lot that she cared. "You know, Clint was mad I'd hired someone. He'd be spewing flames if he knew you were checking his math."
"I don't mean to be crass, but he can fuck off." She blew out her breath. "I think we need to look at all the invoices. It's like he plucked numbers straight out of the air. We need to check your expenditure against income to ensure your bottom line is still okay."
That did not sound like fun, but it gave me precisely what I needed, which was more time with Lux.
"I won't tell Clint you said that," I said and chuckled.
"I'm serious," she growled.
"And that's just one more thing I love about you." I pressed a quick kiss to her lips.
She gasped, and her features softened. "You mean it?"
"Yeah."
"I love you too. And that's why I'm so freaked. What you've got here with your business is amazing. I want to make sure it stays that way. But the way everything is messed up, I need to go through it all and fix it."
My heart melted into a pile of mush. It made no sense she cared for me as much as she did. Yet, I felt it with every word and caress. "You don't have plans for the rest of the day, do you?"
She laughed. "Only with you."
"I'd better get us some lunch then."
