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Tyler whistled. “That her? Damn.”
“Get your mind out of the gutter, bro,” Adam said with a knowing smirk. “We’re looking into her for professional reasons, not recreational ones.”
Mac made the text bigger, giving it a quick read. “Impressive stuff. Graduated from University of Maryland with top honors, got herself a degree in accounting. Says she worked for some big tech firm up in New York City until her father died and left her the farm.”
“Explains why she showed up out of nowhere,” Adam said. “And why she seems a little out of her element.”
“Let me look around a little more,” Mac said. “Find out some info that this puff piece isn’t going to have.”
He clicked here and there, eventually bringing up her financial information.
“Good credit,” he said. “But wait…”
“What is it?” I asked, craning my neck to get a better look at the screen.
Mac sipped his drink, shaking his head.
“Lots of debt in student loans, I mean alot. Talking tens of thousands of dollars here.”
“Well, that’s nothing,” Tyler said. “Just means that she didn’t have some rich parents paying her way through college. These days, the only way an average person’s getting a degree is by taking out tons of loans.”
“All the same,” Mac said, sitting back and taking a thoughtful sip of his drink, “I don’t like it.”
Adam shook his head. “Brother, if you aren’t going to hire someone because of student loans then you’re excluding half the pool of twenty and thirty-somethings out there. As long as she’s paying it off, I don’t see what the big deal is.”
“I’m more interested in her criminal history,” I said. “After what happened with that last woman we interviewed...”
Mac nodded in silent agreement as he leaned forward and typed. Generally obtaining criminal background info wasn’t easy. For a crew like us, however, it took no effort at all.
“She’s clean,” he said. “Nothing other than a few parking tickets back when she was a teenager.”
“That’s good news,” Adam said. “Anything else we can find?”
Mac put her name into another search engine, this time bringing up what looked to be a webpage for the farm. He scrolled down, and I had to admit the page was charming. There were pictures of her posing with the animals, a big smile on her face in each one.
After a bit more scrolling, however, he reached a picture that gave all of us pause—a photo of her in a bikini.
“Nowthat’sthe sort of background information I’mlooking for,” Adam said with a grin.
“Easy, horndog,” I replied, reaching over and giving him a swat to the arm. “This is about finding out if she’s right for the job, not ogling her like some horny teenager.”
He shrugged. “Just saying what we were all thinking.”
He was right. There was no way to look at the picture of her wearing barely anything at all without noticing right away how damned gorgeous she was. I was getting so turned on, in fact, that it was almost uncomfortable to be around my brothers.
“So,” Mac said, closing the internet browser window and mercifully taking the sight of Aubrey in a bikini away from me. “She was great with Henry, seems on the level, and lives right nearby.”
“Not to mention, she’s not a convicted felon,” Adam added. “Always a plus.” He flashed a smile.
I rubbed my chin, thinking it over. “There’s still the matter of herwantingthe job. We don’t know if she’s got the time for it with running her farm and all. And if so, we’ll still need to try her out with the twins. One kid is one thing, two is a whole different ball game.”
“Right,” Mac replied, closing the computer. “The kids come first—no matter what.”
He said what we were all thinking. Strange as it seemed, however, it felt like we’d already made the decision, that Aubrey was almost fated to be a part of our lives.
Things were about to get interesting.
Chapter 7
