Summer Love_ A Steamy Small Town Romance Anthology - Piper Rayne Page 0,142

back. “Don’t move from here until… Give me five minutes before you come out of the closet,” I order.

“Oh, there you are, sweetheart,” Mr. Matthews says, smiling at me. “What happened now?”

“Why?” I ask, looking around.

“Well, you have a bucket, you’re flushed, and your hair is…” He moves his hands around his hair. “That’s not the point of this conversation. Let’s go to your office. I have a big surprise for you.”

My heart is pounding. He almost caught me having sex with a customer in the janitor’s closet. He’s going to fire me if he finds out. What is wrong with me? This is so out of character. My heart pounds as I take a step closer to the office. He’s going to fire me. He probably knows that I had sex at the inn with one of the guests.

As we enter my office, he looks at his phone. “Where is this kid?”

“Who?” I ask.

He steps outside my office, looks toward his left, and says, “There you are. I told you to wait for me, and suddenly you disappeared.”

Mr. Matthews enters, and a man a few inches taller than him is right behind. “Siobhan, I want you to meet Iskander Cantú. He’s Diego’s grandson. Iskander, meet Siobhan. She’s been with us for the last couple of years. She manages the brewery and the sports bar.” He pauses and flashes his signature smile at me. “You can bring him up to date. He’s here to take Diego’s place. You’ll be managing under him.”

I stare at Mr. Matthews. He has to be kidding me. So much for sex making a better world, and washing away my bad luck. I just fucked my new boss in the janitor’s closet. My boss’s grandson.

Chapter Six

Iskander

“If you don’t mind, I’m going to take my break.” Siobhan finally speaks, avoiding my gaze. “It’s lunchtime. Yes, I’m…”

“I can take that bucket from you,” I say, getting closer to her.

She drops the bucket and runs out of the office.

Abuelo is going to kill me if he ever finds out that I slept with her. I’ve heard of Siobhan before. She came from Chicago and made several changes to the brewery and the sports bar that have brought more customers to Wicked Luna, plus tourists to Luna Harbor.

“What did you do, Iskander?” Uncle Gary glares at me with a what-the-fuck-Iskander? look.

“Nothing?”

He shakes his head in disapproval. “She ran like a skittish kid who just saw a ghost. I can’t lose that girl. You need her to run this place.”

“I thought Dad said I needed my siblings to run the place,” I correct him. “Which one is it?”

“You five are here to run the shops,” he states. “I’m going to stay in Seattle with your grandfather. That’s why I said we had to start today. I’m introducing you to everyone and giving you the keys and passwords to everything.”

I glare at him. “Are you kidding me, Uncle Gary?”

He shakes his head. “No. I was going to hire more people, but you know Diego. He said that this is your legacy. You kids need to come back home. We put too much heart and soul into these places. It’s your turn to continue with the tradition.”

Uncle Gary has been a friend of my grandfather since they were in grade school. Unlike my grandfather, he never married or had a family. In some weird way, we’re all he has. It never occurred to me that he doesn’t have anyone to leave his part of the business to. This might be me in fifty years. I’ll leave everything to my nieces and nephews.

My grandfather is not going to die, and Uncle Gary is going to be around for a while. I better make sure that he knows this. Me tending his shops is temporary.

“Until you come back,” I state.

“Sure.” He looks at his watch. “Do you think you can come over on Monday so Siobhan can bring you up to speed? You know how to manage the sports bar. Nothing has changed. I’m giving her the day off. She deserves it.”

I’m not sure if she’s going to talk to me again. Fuck, what was I thinking when I pinned her against the door and fucked her? I knew when I saw her today that she was more than just a waitress about to quit tomorrow. I just didn’t care. I had to have her one last time. Though, I’m afraid that wasn’t enough to purge her out of my system. I need to be