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My gaze worked my way up to hers, completely unrepentant. My dick was so fucking hard and it wasn’t from morning wood. “Hmm?”
“I work at Wild Wild Wilderness for the morningtour, then I go to the Feed and Seed. I’ll be there until six.”
I frowned and tried to get my brain to work. Usually, I needed a cup of coffee, but now I was distracted by her. Naked. My cum seeping from her. “You… have two jobs?”
She pushed her hair back, but it fell right back into her face. “Yes. I need the money. Mortgage. Electricity. Food.”
That sounded normal, but what wasn’t was that she was living in her childhood home. A home that belonged to her father. “What about your dad? Can’t he pay his own mortgage?”
She hopped from the bed, which gave me a delectable view of her bare ass.
“He hasn’t had a steady job since I was fourteen.”
I pushed up onto my elbows to watch her. “You mean his drinking?”
She sat on the edge of the bed and tugged on her sweats that I’d dropped to the floor when I’d undressed her. “Yes. He hasn’t been the same since Mom died. Started drinking right away but it got bad enough where he lost his job as an accountant. Then he tried other things around town, but a boss likes an employee to show up. And be sober.”
I could only imagine. I had a few employees and Icouldn’t imagine what I’d do if one of them showed up trashed or erratic. No, I knew exactly what I’d do. I’d fire them.
“So you’re working your ass off to take care of him?” I asked, trying to get my head around her situation. Walking in last night wasn’t the full picture, it seemed.
She looked over her shoulder at me. Nodded. “Our fight started because he was going through my purse looking for money. Money I didn’t have.”
I sat up and reached for her. “Why are you even living there?”
She glanced at me over her shoulder. “Because I have no money. It’s all used up as soon as I get paid.”
Meaning her father spent it on his drinking and she didn’t have enough to live anywhere else.
“You like your jobs?” I asked.
She sighed. “I like Wild Wild Wilderness. I love the animals and the tourists are always fun. But horseback riding tours are seasonal and will drop off in the next few weeks until late spring, so I’ll have to pick up more time at the Feed and Seed. Andy’s nice and all, but counting stock and loading feed bags into farmers’ trucks isn’t what I want to do with my life.”
I could only imagine. And why thehellwas Andy having her load feed bags? I’d felt every inch of herbody. Knew how toned her muscles were, but I was gonna need to have a talk with the guy.
Instead of sharing that with her, I asked, “What is it you want to do?”
She was young. I didn’t ask how old she was, but if she was Shep’s age, that made her twenty-two or twenty-three. A decade younger than me. I’d known I wanted to be a vet since the time I found a bird that had hit one of the windows and nursed it back to health when I was seven. I worked hard, but the business was mine. It was growing and I was taking it in a direction I wanted it to go. I had a say in what I did every day.
She didn’t.
“I thought I’d go into nursing, but that requires a college degree. I’m past that now.”
I studied her. “I can see you as a nurse.”
Reaching down, she grabbed her sweatshirt and–sadly–threw it on, covering the body I’d just started to get to know. That I was obsessed with. Then she turned to face me fully, set her hands on her hips.
“You’re thinking of me in a slutty nurse’s uniform, aren’t you?” She asked, with one red eyebrow arched.
“Oh yeah.” I grinned. Couldn’t help it. I even reached down and palmed my dick. “I have a problem right now that might need your attention.”
She rolled her eyes, then grinned.
“If you don’t like the Feed and Seed, come work for me,” I offered.
Her hands fell to her sides. Her mouth opened and closed a few times. “Work for you? At the vet clinic? Cam, I only have a high school diploma.”
I shrugged. “You have a lot of experience with horses. I saw you in action last night. Plus, Katie said as much. I’m not asking you to neuter a cat. Nat, my receptionist, is going on maternity leave next month. I need someone to cover for her, then probably job share because she doesn’t want to come back full time. I was expecting to answer phones, make appointments, and still do surgeries for the next few months. You can also help with checking in patients, taking temps, and things like that. There’s kennel work and then I need an assistant when I go out to ranches. Lots of hands on with horses, although not as much as with Katie and Bray.”
