Page 11 of Make Me Stay

“Perfect. Who’s the client?”

“Mrs. Durham? Don’t know her.”

He whistled. “I do. Wait until she sees it’smecoming through her door. Might kick me out.”

I laughed. “Maybe I should give it to one of your other brothers.”

“Nah. We all bugged the crap out of her. She was the lunch lady. You don’t remember her?”

I blinked. “At school? No, probably not. I always brought a bag lunch.”

“Missed out on the exceptionally basic cheese pizza.” He winked. “We’ll take care of her.”

“Good. Thanks.” I printed out a work order and handed it to him.

Wyatt jogged back over to us. “No go on the grommets.”

I wrote it down on my pad. “What size?”

“You’re the best.” Wyatt patted my head. “Order a four and a five inch one.”

I scribbled it down and stuck it in the corner of my blotter. “I’ll order them this morning.”

“We’ve got a job over on Liberty.”

Wyatt nodded. “Sounds good. Thanks, Lex.”

As usual, my brother couldn’t relax, and he was already out the door. Kai held back a minute and paused at the door, then turned to me. “Did you like the idea of me messing up your desk, Lexi?”

I gulped. This was my chance.

Maybe Nicole was right. I had a feeling Kai knew what he was doing when it came to a desk, a bed, or a backseat. And I wanted to know all three.

“If I did?”

His fingers tightened on the door, then he closed it and returned to my desk.

My heart hammered in my chest as he leaned in, putting both hands on my desk until he was hovering over me. “Now you can’t say something like that to a man like me.”

“I think you’re exactly the right man to say it to.”

His jaw clenched.

“You’re not sticking around, right?”

Slowly, he nodded.

“Then, yes.” Nerves bounced around in my chest and lower. So much lower. I leaned in until our faces were very close, my mouth dry. “I’d definitely say yes.”

“Because I’m leaving when my brother doesn’t need me anymore?”

I nodded. “I don’t want anything serious. I just got out of a long relationship. A very long, very dry relationship.”

“I sure as fuck wouldn’t leave you dry, baby.”

The shiver did a figure eight down my spine and back up. “I have every faith.”

His gaze dropped to my mouth, then lower to the scoop of my neckline before locking on my eyes, then he straightened and there was no denying he was on the same page.

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