Page 111 of On the Double

Save the farmers.

Save the fruit.

Save your sanity.

Save your loot.

“Save your loot?” I snorted. “Is he a pirate now?”

“Is that Eva?” Scottie asked, his jaw dropping.

“And Jane,” I pointed out. “Fucking hell, he recruited Bree and Tahlia.”

“And Quinn,” Scottie gritted out, his jaw clenching hard. “She told me she was in Yellowstone.”

I bit back a laugh as he marched over to the line and jerked Quinn by the arm, dragging her away, kicking and screaming.

“Hey, Edu!” Fox grinned, waving his hand like a lunatic. “Come join the march!”

“No thanks.” I jerked my head to the side, hoping to pull him away from the crowd. Thankfully, he walked over and joined me away from the chaos. “Fox, what the hell are you doing?”

“Fighting back against the tyranny of the cartels.”

“By marching for farmers outside a grocery store?”

“Grassroots campaign,” he grinned. “We’re gonna change the fucking world.”

I nodded, trying not to let it show how fucking stupid I thought his march was. “Okay, but how about instead, you come back to work and we fight this thing from the inside?”

His eyes widened. “We’re fighting for the avocado farmers?”

“We are.”

His hands clasped my arms and he leapt forward, wrapping his arms around me as he jumped up and down. “Fuck yeah!”

“Alright, alright,” I snapped, prying his arms from around me. “Tell your merry band of protestors to go home.”

His face turned serious. “You have no fucking idea what this means to me. Finally! We’re taking on the big guys to help the little guys. Avocados will be safe once more.”

He rushed off to his group. I shook my head, walking toward the front doors. As soon as they opened, I spotted Harper at her register. A smile immediately filled my face, but as soon as I caught myself doing it, I knew it was time to slow things down. I was getting too attached. But as long as I was here, I could say hi.

“Hey!” she grinned as she saw me walking over. “Look, one arm!” she grinned, showing me how she could still work with only one arm.

It wasn’t exactly what I thought she would be doing when she said she was going back on light duty. “You’re doing too much.”

She rolled her eyes at me. “It’s not too much. Besides, I’m only working a half day today. Once I get this cast off, I can go back to full-time.”

“I don’t like it,” I grumbled.

“Well, you don’t like much of anything, so that’s not surprising.” She nodded to a customer in line. “So, should I come over later tonight?”

The excitement in her eyes nearly had me saying yes, but it was time to start distancing myself from her. “Actually, I’ll be working.”

“Oh.” She smiled, but her eyes held a level of disappointment I wasn’t comfortable with.

“I’ll call you.”

“Sure.”