Total pages in book: 75
Estimated words: 75240 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 376(@200wpm)___ 301(@250wpm)___ 251(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75240 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 376(@200wpm)___ 301(@250wpm)___ 251(@300wpm)
“Score,” Tai grinned. “You’re so fucking lucky when it comes to that. Have you had any offers on it?”
I nodded my head. “Cash for all of my asking price.”
Tai’s eyebrows rose. “That’s pretty damn impressive. Haven’t you sold the last four like that?”
I nodded my head. “Yeah, but that’s the new norm. Older couples scrimp and save for their whole lives, and then pay it all outright once they have it. “
“I should’ve done that with my house. Paying the mortgage is a bitch every month,” Tai grinned. “Maybe I should get into flipping houses on our days off like you’ve been doing.”
I was nodding my head before he’d even finished, regardless of whether he was only teasing or not.
“That’s what I did with PD. Then took off on my own,” I grinned. “But working on your days off requires you to give up time with your wife and kid.”
Tai laughed.
“The baby is in daycare now, and Mia usually works at least two of my days off. Sucks balls, but it is what it is,” he shrugged.
I saw past his nonchalant attitude, and I could tell that it bothered him that he had to work as much as he did, and that she didn’t have off the same days as him.
At least he has someone, I thought. I don’t have anyone and I’ve tried!
“So how’s it working out with that girl, Sierra, you met in the grocery store?” he changed the subject, not aware of what happened.
Then again, no one was aware but me, and probably Sierra. Although she wasn’t acting like she knew.
Apparently, ignoring her wasn’t going to be enough of a hint.
I’d likely have to tell her forcefully that we weren’t going to be anything anymore. Maybe I should’ve recorded her moans and cries for her ‘Brody’ while she fucked him? That likely would’ve been enough of a deterrent.
“Yo,” Tai said. “Isn’t that…” he snapped his fingers. “Oh, what’s her name? The girl that used to work for PD’s woman.”
I looked up as I pulled on scene, and my heart immediately started to beat quickly in my chest.
“Yeah,” I swallowed thickly. “That’s Angie.”
Tai clapped his hands together. “That’s it!”
“She looks pissed,” I observed as I stopped next to the first car.
Tai got out, and I followed, walking to the scene that was about ten yards from the ambulance.
“Angie?” I called out.
Angie, not looking just pissed, but rather livid, turned her gaze to me.
“Hey,” she ground out before turning her gaze back to the woman that was sitting on the curb.
“Were you one of the ones in the accident?” I asked her, concern starting to leech into my voice.
She nodded her head. “Yes.”
“Can you tell me what happened?” I asked.
She pointed at the woman that was sitting on the curb.
“I passed her because she was going twenty in a fifty,” she gritted her teeth. “And once I passed her I saw that she was on her phone. Reading a fucking book.” She shook her head. “I get in front of her, and I’m driving for about a minute and a half before she rear-ends me when I stop for an eighteen-wheeler that pulled into the roadway.”
The woman was glaring at Angie and I knew for certain it was true.
“Are you okay?”
She licked her lips and nodded.
Then her pupils dilated, and I could tell that she was lying.
You couldn’t hide pain like that. Especially not to a trained paramedic.
“Come sit down,” I held out my hand.
She took it, her lovely face kicking into a small smile as she did.
“You’re bossy,” she grimaced. “I kind of like that.”
A grin tugged at the corner of my lips as I led her to the ambulance.
“Take a seat,” I gestured to the cot inside the medic. “Anything hurt in particular?”
She shook her head, but quickly lessened her gesture by rubbing at her sternum.
“Seatbelt get you?” I asked.
She swallowed, then nodded her head.
“Yeah,” she cleared her throat. “Got me good, I think.”
“Why don’t you take the shirt off so I don’t have to cut it off,” I tried really hard to sound professional.
However, the moment the words came out of my mouth, I didn’t miss the way her body shifted, and not in discomfort this time.
“Ummm,” she looked out the ambulance doors to where they were wide open for all to see, and then shook her head. “I’ll pass.”
I snorted and climbed inside, drawing the doors closed behind us.
“Better?” I asked.
“Uhhh,” she pursed her lips. “Yeah.”
Then she took her shirt off, leaving me speechless.
Chapter 5
I put out.
-Firefighter t-shirt
Angie
I slammed into the door of my house two hours later, so far away from a good mood that it was almost comical.
Almost.
I huffed a laugh and walked into my bedroom, drawing my shirt off over my head and chucking it on the floor in the corner of the room.