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“Very exciting,” he said dryly. “I’ll reach out. They can totally stay at the house.”

“You’re sweet, I’ll make you your favorite dinner on Friday night.”

“Lasagna?”

“And fresh bread.”

“Okay, now I don’t mind at all that she’s coming. Thanks, Ma.”

“You bet. Talk to you later.”

Gavin ended the call and was about to call his sister when he remembered that she was a day sleeper and didn’t like being woken up. He’d call her after the sun set and let her know she could have the house that they’d once shared, so her vampire mate wouldn’t get burned to a crisp by the sunshine.

By the time he reached the security office at the end of his shift, he had nothing new to report to Ryan.

“I didn’t see a leaf out of place,” he said, sitting in the chair across from Ryan’s desk.

“I really feel like Brent and his asshole shifter haters moved on, but we can’t be too careful.”

“I agree.”

“Do you like working security?”

“I do. Construction is cool too though.”

“It is,” Ryan said with a smile. He leaned forward and rested his forearms on the desk. “Would you like to switch permanently to the security team?”

Gavin’s brows rose.

Before he could answer, Ryan continued, “Frank just reached out and said that his mate wants to move back to her home pride in Florida because her parents want to be close to the baby, so there’s going to be an opening in the security team. I figure with the vampire hotel and bank projects wrapping up in the next month that you might want to take over Frank’s position now. There are some others who are interested, so if you’d rather stay with the construction crew that’s fine too. You can also think about it and let me know tomorrow.”

“I don’t need to think about it,” Gavin said. “I’d love to join the security team. I’ve always enjoyed filling in, but wheneverany open positions came available there were older males higher up the ranks who got the jobs.”

“Well, now you’re the high-ranked male next in line.”

“No shit?”

Ryan grinned. “No shit. You’ll officially start tomorrow as the newest member of the security team. You’ll work Tuesday through Saturday and have Sunday and Monday off.”

“Perfect.” Gavin stood and extended his hand, shaking Ryan’s. “Thanks, man. This is great news.”

“No more long drives downtown.”

“I won’t miss that.”

Ryan walked him to the door of the office. “Before I forget, are you free Friday night?”

“My mom’s making me dinner since I’m letting Aeryn have my house for the full moon with her mate and baby, but otherwise, no. Why?”

“My sister Lena and her friend Ava want to go to Lykos, but I’m not free to escort them. Devon will go along too, but we like to have two security members escorting anyone outside of town.”

“Yeah, that works.”

“Great, thanks. You can check with Devon, I think the girls want to leave around eight.”

“You got it.”

Gavin left with a skip in his step. Today was turning out to be a great day, considering he’d thought nothing interesting would happen.

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