Page 96 of Between Brothers

“I’ve got an idea or two,” Rush said, sucking his teeth and I looked at him curiously. “In fact, I got a lot of ideas.”

“Oh, lord…” Trigger said and gave a gusty sigh.

“You sell this stuff?” Reaver asked.

“I have some pieces in an antique shop downtown that are on consignment.”

“Should give her the middle space at the club,” Rush said.

“Between you and Dani?”

Rush nodded his head, “My stuff is moving out of there as soon as we finish the outbuilding for it on the farm.”

I wasn’t following anything they were saying so I just kind of politely stood by while Rush measured the window and wrote things down on a notepad. He twisted his head back and forth and I said, “If it helps, I have the brackets right here.”

“That does help, yes!”

The rest of the day was spent watching these men, unfamiliar with working with stained glass specifically, but capable around wood and window installation, work to safely get a rack built in the back of the truck and the window itself framed out. My dad even helped when he got home and I was surprised to find that he seemed happier than he had been for a while to just have people around and something to do.

“Afraid we’re gonna run out of daylight before we can get this in back at the club,” Dragon said.

“I didn’t think we were gonna install it today,” Reaver called.

“Red-Thirteen already has the old window demo’ed out. He’s waiting on us.”

“Really?” I blurted, surprised.

“Damn straight. This beauty is going in and staying in.”

I was surprised, shocked and amazed that it would matter to them as much as me… Dragon smiled and huffed a bit of a laugh and said, “Let’s get going, boys or we’re going to have to set up the flood lights.

I looked at Blue who smiled at me like I was the sun and I felt my shoulders drop, as if a weight was taken from them.

They really knew how to make a girl feel like she belonged.

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