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"With our coht become a little difficult," he said to Rory, but his eyes were on the Jaer to teach his fore he learned early on, the James brothers had a zero tolerance policy when it caone after hiht she could handle him

Ridiculous, but true

"Until we figure things out, David and the rest ofand hisof what requires i everyone into silence

Rory frowned, but he didn’t really care what she thought As long she stayed out of his way, fetched his drinks and food, he would tolerate her presence David looked pissed and ready to argue, but he didn’t really care about that either The only thing he cared about were the five largelooks

He knew they hadn’t expected hi, arguet any He wanted these men to work for him, and what better way to convince the them start now?

Chapter 5

"What are you doing?"

Rory didn’t bother looking at Connor while she said, "Working What does it look like?"

"It looks like you’re getting in the way ofand looked pointedly around the large roof where four of her brothers were checking for weak spots andin the way of yourover to e spray paint

Connor glared at her as he stepped up onto the arched roof Rory cocked a brow as she looked him over from his baby blue shirt with the dark blue tie pulled loose at the neck to his dark tan cargo khakis to his black leather hiking boots Only a man as hot as Connor would be able to pull off that look, she thought with disgust as she turned her attention back toto have to replace the entire thing thanks to poor upkeep, but they liked to knohich spots to avoid when it was tio when they still worked for their father and Brian hadn’t h the roof, broke his arot his ass chewed out by their father in the ER while his ar off more than a few nurses

Brian sat there quietly, because he knew he fked up and as expected of him He didn’t even corunt work for the next three months It was a job they all hated and worked their asses off to avoid, but once you got grunt work assignment you knew that you royally screwed up They worked hard to avoid grunt work, real hard

"Because they should be up here doing this, not you," he said, stepping onto the roof and gesturing for her to get the hell off With an amused snort, she continued to check the roof

"And what exactly should I be doing?" she asked, not bothering to look up as she tapped her bluntmy coffee What else?" he asked in that cocky tone that always rubbed her the wrong way and worst of all, he said it in front of her brothers

She looked up, hoping they were getting offended on her behalf andto throw Connor’s ass off the roof, but of course they only let out alared at the not for the first time, why they hadn’t beaten the crap out of Connor for her since they beat everyone else up