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But it was my type.

Needless to say, it wasn’t exactly a surprise that I found ‘his girl’ there working on her car. He adopted stray people like most people adopted stray pets.

What was a surprise was which girl it was.

Kinny walked up to the woman bent into the hood of her car, but I didn’t need her to turn around or stand up to recognize that ass. Or the car.

‘99 Toyota Corollas were a dime a dozen. But one that was brown, beat up, and had a roof rack? That one was highly specific.

“Hey, Holl,” Kinny said as he sidled up to the car. “You want to come out to lunch with me and my friend?”

Hollis straightened up from her car, a red rag in her hand, as she wiped her hands clean.

“Uhh,” she hesitated, sounding like she wanted to go. “Sure. Who’s the friend?”

My gaze was on her ass when she slowly started to turn, and I realized that the stigma of ‘Wrangler butt’ worked for both men, and women.

I grinned wickedly when I saw her fully face me and take note of who had been standing behind her.

I reluctantly dragged my eyes up the length of her body, not missing the way her black tank top clung to her perfect breasts. Finally, my eyes slowed at her mouth for a few seconds, before stopping at her eyes.

Her eyes were narrowed hard, and I saw the moment she was about to say no.

“Hollis, I’d like you to meet the best person in the world, Quincy Carter. He’s been my best friend since I was seven and a half, and we met in the middle of a school yard brawl on the playground.” Kinny jerked his chin in my direction. “Quincy, I’d like you to meet my old neighbor, and protégé, Hollis Aue.”

“Oh, we’ve met.” Hollis crossed her dirty hands over her chest and said, “I’ll skip lunch, but thank you.”

Kinny’s eyebrows rose. “Why do I have a feeling y’all more than know each other?”

“We don’t know each other like that,” I said to him.

Yet.

Because, as it looked to me right now, I’d definitely be pursuing her.

It may come back and bite me in the ass, because she had TROUBLE written all over her, but it would be a fuckin’ fantastic ride.

Kinny looked from me to Hollis and back, then grinned.

“You broke the law, didn’t you, Hol?” Kinny giggled.

Yes, the big bear of the man giggled. It was one of his most endearing features.

Hollis rolled her eyes, then threw the red rag onto the rolling tool chest next to her before saying, “I’ll go under one condition.”

“What’s that?” I asked before Kinny could.

“We go where I want to go.”

I could see the challenge in her eyes, as if she fully expected me to say no.

“Sure,” I said.

Kinny groaned. “You’re gonna regret that. She chooses the weirdest places.”

I couldn’t wait.

We drove ten minutes to a little hole in the wall I’d never seen before, which was laughable seeing as the restaurant was five minutes away from my place. How I’d never noticed it before, I didn’t know. But there I was, being enlightened.