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Vinyl watched her cheeks brighten to a pretty pink.
“We should be able to finish the porch before it gets dark if we get going early enough,” he announced, switching back to their previous topic. They’d given her more than enough to thinkabout between now and Friday night. Now, it was time to deal with getting this rebuild squared away.
The entire time they’d been talking, he’d had half an ear on the conversation and the other half focused on the groaning wood beneath them. They were pushing their luck by standing up here together. He highly doubted the porch could hold this much combined weight; the three of them weren’t little guys. It didn’t help that Tanner was stomping up and down the rickety platform, testing for weak spots either. With every thud of his boots, Vinyl’s worry intensified. They were going to fall straight through if Tanner kept it up.
“Will your roommates be alright with us getting started around seven or so?” Vinyl asked. This porch was a definite safety hazard; one that he wished they could tackle sooner than Saturday. Unfortunately, their schedules were packed to the brim with things that couldn’t be put off any longer. The big custom job they were working on now had to be finished before the end of the week and they were already behind. None of them had been able to focus much now that Elena was there, and it showed. Shit had already started to pile up.
“They’re usually up before the sun rises,” she answered, nibbling her lower lip. “How much do—"
“It won’t cost you a dime,” Tanner cut in. “We have a bunch of extra lumber from a project last summer that’s just taking up space in the barn. Ms. Taffy has wanted it cleared out for a while now. We’ll be killing two birds with one stone.”
“We have enough?” There was no need for Vinyl to elaborate how much was “enough”. They all knew it was going to be completely rebuilt.
“We should,” his buddy answered with a nod.
“Does that sound good?” Pax asked their woman.
Elena blinked at him as if stunned.
“Does that sound good, baby doll?” he repeated when she didn’t answer.
Her brow crinkled. “I guess?”
Vinyl smiled encouragingly when she looked over at him.
“Are you sure?”
“One hundred percent,” he answered without hesitation. There was no question about it—not for any of them.
“You okay, girl?”
The voice coming from their doorbell security system scared the shit out of all of them. He almost fell backwards down the steps. Elena jumped, prompting Pax to grab hold of her. And Tanner fell off the fucking porch into the front bushes.
“Sorry!” the voice apologized. “Is your feller okay?”
“Fuck!” Elena rushed to the edge Tanner had fallen off and looked over with a grimace. “Watch out for the th—”
“OUCH!”
“—orns,” she finished with a grimace. “Sorry.”
Vinyl moved her gently out of the way so he and Pax could haul their buddy up and out of the tangle of rosebushes that broke his fall.
“I got stabbed in the ass!” Tanner groaned as he joined them once again. “More than once.”
“Let me take a look at it,” the voice from the speaker cackled.
Tanner froze.
“Can we pretend you didn’t hear that?” Elena asked him with an embarrassed smile.
“Ask him if he needs a kiss to make it feel better,” another voice suggested with a giggle.
“Ladies!” Elena’s cheeks were getting brighter with every second.
Vinyl found it hard not to laugh, especially when Tanner’s hands moved as if to shield his butt from the speaker.
Elena covered her face with her hands and slumped against the front door. “Kill me now.”
