He didn’t grace the remark with a solution, solely grunted in reply.

“Sit.”

“I’d quite not.”

Riggs cocked a darkish forehead. He actually was a handsome man. Tall and muscular from engaged on the ranch in Texas. He’d as soon as been a Boot Knocker like himself.

However they weren’t the identical. Riggs already had what he wished—Hugh and an exquisite spouse they shared. Ash was nonetheless preventing to seek out what it was that he could be allowed to carry on to.

At this level, he wasn’t even certain if that was his job.

Riggs tried a smile to place him relaxed, but it surely appeared like extra of a grimace.

Ash didn’t really feel a lot camaraderie with the person for the time being.

“All proper, then we’ll stand.” Riggs thumbed his hat in a gesture that Ash noticed as a nervous one. Good—he’d thrown him off his sport.

Ash wasn’t fucking round. “Why did Hugh name Piers to the workplace?” Ash demanded.

“He had a query.”

“Is it the identical query you intend on asking me? As a result of I’m beginning to really feel performed.” He clenched his molars earlier than he completely popped off and stated one thing he couldn’t take again.

Riggs’s shoulders slumped a bit. “Look, I’m not right here to interrogate you in regards to the workplace woman once more. I wished to debate one thing completely completely different.”

That had his consideration. He took one other of these deep breaths to regulate himself.

“I’m listening.”

“I’ve been watching you and Piers collectively. I do know you will have a dynamic.” Apparently, Riggs wasn’t fucking round both.

“I gained’t deny it.”

“You signed as a bundle deal. One among your phrases was that you just’ll solely carry one other girl into your mattress.”

“That’s proper.”

“You like him.”

The phrases shocked Ash. The feelings he all the time stored at bay, tucked deep in a personal spot inside his coronary heart, surfaced. His nostril burned, and he pinched it to stave off the feeling of tears that threatened due to these phrases, spoken so boldly.

So freely.

“I do.” His voice was gritty.

Riggs’s eyes softened. He nodded. “I perceive. I needed to know precisely what these emotions had been earlier than I provided you one thing.”

His stare met Riggs’s. “A deal?”

“You would name it that.”

“I’m to listen to what it’s a must to say.”

“I hoped you’d say that. Now will you sit and listen to me out?”

Ash gave him a reluctant nod. Regardless of the man needed to inform him was price listening to. He would give him an opportunity. In spite of everything, he was on the point of dropping all the pieces anyway.

Slowly, he moved to one of many huge leather-based chairs and took a seat.

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