Page 45 of Five Mountain Daddies

“You know she’s leaving, right?” he says after a minute ofsilence.

I grunt in response. “Iknow.”

“Is any of this smart?” hesays.

I hesitate. I run my hand over the granite countertop and look at the pristine oven for a second. I always liked the way new apartments looked. They’re empty, waiting for the personality of a person to come fill them. It’s all pure potential, ready and waiting to be whatever you want it to be. I’m excited to find out what London wants to do with this space, assuming she wants it to beginwith.

“None of this is smart,” I say finally. James looks over at me and I grin at him. “Since when did that stopus?”

He smiles, but I can tell there’s a real worry in his eyes. “I just don’t want anyone to gethurt.”

“You’re always trying to protect us,” I say. “Sometimes you gotta accept that you can’t save the whole fucking world,James.”

He laughs a little. “Well, there I respectfully disagree withyou.”

“Respectfully disagree with this, asshole.” I flip him off and helaughs.

We finish the little tour of the empty apartment. James is worried, but I do get a hint of excitement from him too. I know he wants London around even more, which is why he wanted to hire her to begin with. He couches it all in this noble desire to save her from the judgmental townsfolk, but that’s bullshit. I can see through him, and he just wants London’s tight little pussy around in the office all day long, ready and dripping wet for him. Hell, that’s what we all want, he just has to go and pretend like it’s noble or someshit.

Well, there’s nothing noble about this apartment. While it was fucking hot to get her off in that basement, when her father almost came downstairs I knew something had to change. We’re not kids anymore, even if it’s fun to pretend like we are. There are reasons adults don’t live with their parents, and getting double-teamed by two hot guys is one of them. If I want to keep fucking London when and how I like, she has to stop living with herparents.

I figure she’ll want to live here, even if it’s just for another couple months. I bought the apartment outright, hell, I bought the whole damn building, so she can stay as long as she wants to. And when she leaves, I can rent it out to someone else, no big deal. This just happens to be an investment that benefits me in a few differentways.

“Want me to be there when you show her?” Jamesasks.

I shake my head. “I’d rather do italone.”

He nods. “Good.”

We leave the apartment and head back downstairs. It’s one of the nicest units in the building, and fortunately I didn’t have to evict anyone. I’m keeping on all the same employees and tenants, so this place shouldn’t change too much, and it’ll start making a nice profit in a year orso.

“I’m glad you bought this place,” James says as we head outside, out toward ourtrucks.

“I’m kind of surprised to hear you saythat.”

He stops and cocks his head. “Why?”

“I mean, you don’t usually want us investing in anything withoutyou?”

“That’s just because I don’t want you to make a dumb fucking decision,” he says. “But it’s time for me to stop being soprotective.”

I raise my eyebrow at him. “You really are starting to grow up,huh?”

“Fuck off,” he says,laughing.

I wave and we head in opposite directions. I get in my truck and drive back to the office, a little bit nervous, but mostlyexcited.

London’s working in a little corner office in the back of the building, away from everyone else, close to our offices. I don’t bother her, since I know James is actually giving her work. This job thing is an excuse to have her around, but he’s not going to let her just sit around doing nothing. She’ll either be using that nice little cunt of hers, or she’ll be doing actualwork.

At the end of the day, I walk over to her office. She’s just shutting down her computer when I knock and lean in the opendoorway.

“Hey,” she says, lookingup.

“How was it?” Iask.

She shrugs. “Not too bad. Pretty easy firstday.”

“Easy boss too, I bet,” Isay.

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