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“But…”
I motioned to my employee. “There’s another ladder in my garage. Should be some wood you can use as a plank, too.”
“On it, boss.”
Porter disappeared. Meanwhile, Josie stared at me like I had two heads.
“What?” I asked.
“I don’t get you. You act like I’m a pain in your ass just for breathing, yet you’re going to help me.”
“Youarea pain in my ass.”
“So why are you helping me?”
“Fuck if I know. It just feels like the right thing to do.”
Josie contemplated my answer for a minute, then a smile crept onto her face.
“What?” I asked.
“Opal is right. You’re a coconut.”
“What the hell does that mean?”
“Nothing.” She smiled. “Except I really want a piña colada now.”
CHAPTER 7
Not Interested
Fox
“So what’s Josie’s deal?” Two hours later, Porter hopped down from the ladder. He wiped the spackle from his hands onto his jeans.
I glanced over and went back to measuring for the last piece of sheetrock that needed to be hung on the walls. “There is no deal.”
“You’re not interested in her?”
My jaw flexed. “Nope.”
“Then why are we over here on a Sunday morning working on her living room when the high school job is running a week behind? If we were going to put in overtime, it would make more sense to be laying the oak floor in the gymnasium.”
“Let me manage my business, and you manage yours.”
Porter stuffed his hands into his pockets. “Don’t have any business to manage. Opal said Josie hit your mailbox.”
I looked up at the ceiling and shook my head. Did the whole, entire town need to gossip? “Why the hell is Opal talking to you about my mailbox?”
“Remember that time I accidentally backed into the address sign at the office? The bed of my pickup was full with boxes of cabinets for the Woodward job so I couldn’t see so good.”
“What about it?”
“You almost fired me, you were so pissed.”
“So?”
“So your best employee almost getsfiredfor hitting a sign, and some woman you just met gets her living room done on a Sunday?”
