Page 57 of Ace of Spades

I look at the phone.

“Excuse me?You guys?”

“Yeah, Sienna and her cousin are coming, too. Four,” he says again, and hangs up.

Gah.

Of course he didn’t think to inform me of this change of plans.

Originally it was supposed to be a time for us to sit together, relax, and let loose like old times.

Now… now I have to worry about the vixen I need to stay away from.

“Levi?” Sienna pokes her head out. “Levi,” she says again.

“Yeah?” I slip the phone into my back pocket.

Josie comes out of the office doing a little dance with her hands between her thighs.

“I think she needs to go potty,” Sienna points out.

“Oh, thanks.”

I rush over to the little girl, pick her up and carry her over to the bathroom. Once she’s inside, Josie pushes me out to give her some privacy.

And now Sienna’s babysitting my ex’s daughter. And doing a damn good job of it too.

The garage bay slides open and more voices fill the space.

“Nah, nah, nah,” I hear Joey’s voice say. “Two months? I bet ya I could have that running in a week.”

Kim scoffs.

“Pu-lease. Nobody can have that hunk of junk running in a week.”

They stroll in, leisurely and stop when they see me.

“Why are you two here?”

They look at each other, before Kim replies, “Are you saying I didn’t need to roll out of bed at 8 am on a Sunday because we’re behind on our builds?”

“Did you suddenly get bitten by some productivity bug?”

The toilet flushes behind the door and I hear the sink turn on.

“More like your assistant sent out an SOS,” Joey says. “I was all about her helping you, but I didn’t think that meantourhours were going up too.”

My assistant sent a text?

I look at them confused, before I call out to her. “Sienna?”

She pokes her head out of my office a moment later.

“Yes, Levi?”

“Did you text the crew to come in today?”

“I did,” she says.

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