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He nodded even as he thought that over Huh, no Rorythat could actually work for hiet her oldto convince the James brothers that their lives would be so much better if they came to work for hiht as he looked at the men in question and had to bite back a sood as his

"We’re having Dad co as he climbed up the rickety steps to the enor plans for The client wanted the roof fixed, a new attic floor, fix the stairs and update the utilities, but they were passing up a golden opportunity with this space and she was going to convince thee, luxury suites out of the space and she was going to make damn sure that Connor stayed away fronature touch to the hotel, the thing that drew people to this hotel and the thing that ca to be Shadow Construction that got all the glory She had ato convince theet just a little more to accoirls were day drea about all the things that she would do to this large old mansion to make it perfect and now that it was all hers, well, half hers, to re to make damn sure that it lived up to her drea Dad committed," Bryce said as he carefully stepped up onto the plywood she laid down for safety and glared at her

"Yeah, I heard you," she said distractedly as she looked at the ceiling and frowned at the structure bea to have to be replaced She’d hoped that they could salvage soet the new roof on faster, but it looked like they were going to have to tear the entire roof off and start from scratch Actually, that could work for her because-

"Don’t you even want to knohat he did?"

"Nope, just tellif she would be able to convince some of Connor’s men to do a little side work for her, only the ones that met her standards of course She didn’t tolerate sloppy work and she sure as hell wouldn’t tolerate substandard work on this project Unfortunately, she already had a feeling that she was going to have to have souys double check Connor’s men’s work

"You really don’t care?" he asked, eyeing her cautiously as he stepped up to stand beside her

"Not at all," she said as she considered using skylight s and just as quickly disive it that eighteenth century feel and placing hts on the roof would wreck the effect No, it was better to go with her original plan, she decided

"Fine Then I won’t tell you," Bryce said, clearly fighting back a smile as he crossed his massive arms over his chest

"Uh huh," she said absently, earning a loud drawn out sigh of annoyance from Bryce and probably an eye roll

"Shouldn’t you be working?" she asked as she checked her watch It was a quarter to five and she was too excited to call it a night Not that she would and she doubted that her brothers would either They’d probably put in another three or four hours until hunger forced them to head home

"Probably," Bryce mused

"Is there a special reason why you’re not working?" she asked as she turned to face hied "We wanted to know if you wanted us to handle Connor’s men the next time they pull any bullshit or just let hi her of the earlier mutiny that she’d been forced to handle in front of their father

"What the hell happened?" she asked, walking over to a rotting post and to grab her bottle of lukeater "And uys handle it?"

He gave her a "duh" look as he said, "We had our hands busy with the fire inspector"

"The fire inspector was here?" When he nodded, she gave him her own version of the "duh" look "Why the hell didn’t sohting over petty bullshit It wouldn’t have been too bad, but Connor’s foree We got sick of their bullshit and decided to let them beat the shit out of each other while we made sure that eren’t shut down"

She bit back a groan Being shut down this early in the garound running "Did he shut us down?" she asked, trying to stay calm