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“Something’s got your panty elastic twisted. Let’s have it.” Fin rotated a wrist.
“I’m not really a spill my guts kind of guy, so we’ll leave it there,” Ted said.
“None of us are to begin with, and then you meet the Trainers. Those guys.” Fin shook his head. “Yammering on about shit until you want to gag them.”
“Yammering? What the hell does that mean?”
“To yammer,” Fin said, “talk constantly without stopping to breathe.”
“Ah, so that’s what it’s called. There’s a few people in this town afflicted with that.”
He felt the tension inside him slowly ease. The guy friends he’d made in Ryker could do that to him. Playing ball, or just hanging out and talking crap; it was all part of recharging for Ted.
“And then some. But those Trainers, they just wear you down until you tell them what they want to hear so they’ll shut up.”
“Thanks for the heads-up.”
“So now that your shoulders have dropped, if you want to spill your innards, I’m listening.” Fin looked at his watch. “But then we have to go.”
“Where?”
“Ryker versus Howling. You got the memo I put out about the events we were doing for the bachelor party, right?”
“About that, Fin. Seriously, man, WTF. Who sends out a memo like that for a bachelor party?”
The man wasn’t easily insulted. Ted had noticed that too about the men of Ryker.
“You know these guys, man. It’d be like herding cats to get them all in the right place at the right time. Besides, businessman like you, you should understand the power of organization.”
He had a point there.
“So you go on and gear up, Teddy Bear, and I’ll see you at the courts.”
“I really should work.”
“I thought you took a few days off?”
“I did, but stuff happens—”
“Isn’t that assistant you got worth the ridiculous money you pay her?”
“She is.”
“Then let it go, Beefcake, and gear up.”
“I seriously have no idea why I put up with you guys.”
“You love us, bud.” Fin slapped his shoulder. “And if you need to talk at any time, you know where I am.”
Ted grunted something and Fin walked away, leaving him alone with his thoughts once again. Strange how his brother’s arrival wasn’t bothering him as much now. He was more worried about the fact he’d insulted Mandy about her dress.
Chapter 6
Mandy mixed the batter in the bowl she held and thought about Ted. Why had that man arriving upset him so much?
“You planning on whipping that until it yields?” Rory said, walking in the kitchen. “Your aunts said you were all bent out of shape over something, and I had to come and see as I didn’t know you did that.”
Rory wore jeans with rips over the knee. Her shirt was purple and had the words “I love veterinary medicine because humans are gross” on the front. Her hair was a riot of curls, and with very little effort on her part she looked sexy. Mandy had never achieved that state.
