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He could tell the prospect of having extranot to let him know

"Ten dollars an hour," she finally said

"That’s highway robbery!"

"No, that’s the price for going near your dirty drawers"

"Fine," he said on a long drawn out sigh, pushing away from the counter She did have a point after all "You can start after your interview"

"Okay," she said, nodding "What do you need done?"

"I need you to go grocery shopping, do a load or two of laundry and a little light cleaning," he said, trying not to frighten her with the truth She’d learn soon enough what hell awaited her and by the time she’d discovered the truth she’d already be set on earning some extra money Plus she was desperate for work, so she really shouldn’t be costy Instead she should thank him

"That doesn’t sound too bad," sheout a pen and a pad of paper "Write dohat you need and I’," she said, sounding embarrassed

"Don’t worry about it," he said, taking the pen fro his list down quickly "You never told ht," he reain and I think it broke inside of the door," she said, trying to peek over his shoulder at his list "I’e today"

He should just let her do that, but he kne ed for that shit "No," he said, shaking his head and handing over his list so he could pull his wallet out "I’ll fix it over the weekend Until then place a feels and a trash bag over the car seat when you’re using the car otherwise let it dry out You can usecleaner to suck the water out of it this afternoon," he said, handing her his grocery money He really needed to move his ass now or he’d be late

"Thanks," Zoe rocery list "You didn’t write anything"

"Yes, I did," he said, pointing to the one word he wrote

"Everything," she read out loud, lips twitching "So helpful"

"That’s just the kind of guy I a in time she’d come to realize how lucky she was to have a landlord like him

Chapter 5

Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea, Zoe thought as she stepped out of her car and looked around the large construction site She didn’t know anything about construction Absolutely nothing On top of that she was pretty sure the bad reference she was no doubt going to get would guarantee that she didn’t get this job or any job for that et in the car and be content to work part tiet a job without having to give a reference

"Move your ass!" a rather largethe hell out of her

Yeah, definitely not the place for her, she thought as she opened her door to get back in her squishy car Maybe if she did a really good job he’d-

"Are you Zoe O’Shea?" a large man with short silver tipped jet black hair asked as he paused by her car She quickly took in his good looks, large build, the laugh lines around his eyes, button down shirt, khakis and clipboard and had a pretty good idea who thisaway fro he hadn’t seen her little escape attempt