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"Congratulations! You’re getting a raise"

"Uh huh," Danny said, using his tee shirt to wipe the sweat off his face as he waited for his Uncle to skip the bullshit and get to the reason why he was about to get screwed over

"And a promotion," Uncle Jared said with that forced smile that he kneell It was the same smile that Uncle Jared had used when he’d infore The Hunter’s Nest, the all male strip club in the next town over, had collapsed and he needed Danny to go there and rebuild it

What his Uncle had failed to mention was that the club would be open for auditions while he was supposed to be working If Danny had known that, he probably would have turned down the Yankees tickets that his Uncle had offered to entice Danny to take the job He definitely would have turned down the job if he had known that half the stripper candidates would try to use him and his tools as props as they did their best to outstrip the co jobs that he’d ever done and he’d sworn then and there that he would never allow his Uncle to bullshit hi else

"Not interested," he said, in no uy naht or any other night for that matter

"You didn’t even let me tell you-"

"That’s because I’ot to his feet and headed for the closed office door

"It’s really not that bad," his uncle called after hi soe stack of files covering as supposed to be the secretary’s desk and wondering when his uncle was going to get off his ass and hire soan, Haley and Zoe usually put in a couple of hours each week to catch his uncle up on his paperwork, but clearly that wasn’t enough

"This job is perfect for you!" his uncle said as he hurried to catch up with hi that since his uncle had dragged hi the first floor for this bullshit that he was treating hi snack

"If you don’t take the job then I’ to have to fire you," Uncle Jared said, stepping into line beside him

"Uh huh, that’s nice," he said, absently noting the frightened expression on the cashier’s face as she realized that she had two Bradfords in her line an hour before she had to set up for lunch

As he grabbed a tray and started loading it up, he noted the exactthem that she was closed until lunch Not that he could blame her If they cleaned her out this close to lunch she’d have to deal with more than a hundred pissed off men, forty of them Bradfords It wasn’t a fate that he’d wish on anyone Well, hbor, he mused with a small chuckle

She was just so damn much fun to toretting her flustered every day He liked it when she looked close to going for his throat He wasn’t exactly sure why, but tor Tinkerbelle was probably the most fun he’d had in years

"It’s only for the su him over with this job

"Sorry, I have plans," he lied, hoping that his Uncle wouldn’t re to

"Bullshit," Uncle Jared said, stepping in front of hirab the peanut butter chocolate chipyou have planned this year is the faetaway and that isn’t until October You have the summer wide open"

"How about this?" Danny asked, swiftly snatching the muffin off his uncle’s tray "I just don’t want to do whatever fucked up job you have that will end withviolated"