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place and see about coming in for an interview.

Chapter
Seven
     
    “Hand
me the one inch wrench,” Travis said to Colton, held out his hand, and wrapped
his fingers around the warmed metal. He was under the piece of shit truck that
had been laid up on the property for the last six months. He started undoing
the bolt that had been giving him shit for the last five minutes. Grunting out,
sweat beading his brow, and dirt and grease making it hard to see and breathe,
Travis finally got the son-of-a-bitch off. “Damn,” he said to himself and
handed the wrench back to his brother.
    “You
get it?” Colton asked.
    “Yeah,
finally,” Travis said and got out from under the truck. He grabbed a rag, wiped
the sweat from his face and the grease from his hands, and tossed it over his
shoulder. He saw Jace walking toward them from the
main house, a small collar in his hand. He got to them in a few minutes, handed
each of them a cold beer, and set the collar down.
    “Got a call.”
    “From?” Travis asked and cracked open
the beer, chugging it all before Jace spoke again.
    “That
ad I put in the paper to clean up the pigsties and cook a few meals a week.”
    “You what?” Travis said and set his beer can
down. “When in the hell did you put an ad in the paper?”
    “Last
week, and this is the first hit we’ve gotten on it.”
    He
looked at Colton. “Did you know about this?” Travis asked.
    “Yeah,”
Colton said and rubbed the back of his neck. “I mean, no offense but your
cooking is shit, Travis.” Colton grinned and looked at Jace ,
who started laughing.
    “Who
in the hell would want to clean and cook for us?”   Travis asked, being sincere because everyone
in town knew exactly who they were, and most everyone had a job already. To
have to clean up after three grown men wasn’t really what someone strove to do.
    “At
least tell me it’s a woman.”
    Jace nodded after Colton spoke.
“Yeah, and she’s coming to check out everything, and vice versa, in a few
hours. Maybe you should get cleaned up.” Jace looked
pointedly to Travis, then looked at Colton.
    “Cleaned
up for what?” Travis asked and grabbed another beer from the cooler. “This is
what we do, how we work and make a living. If she is coming to clean up after
us she might as well see how we really are.”
    “I
don’t know about you two but I’m cleaning up. Hell, she might do a little
somethin’ extra, if you get what I’m saying.”
    Before
either of them could respond to what Colton just said he was heading toward the
house. They had hours of work to do still, and although they’d been working
since five in the morning, it looked like Colton wanted to head out early.
Travis couldn’t even be mad at his younger brother.
    They’d
been working their asses off for the last week, trying to get everything
situated so they had product to sell, so the animals were tended to, and were
doing a lot of upkeep for a bunch of shit that had been neglected over the last
year. He supposed he should have put his foot down and told Colton that they
had a lot to do still, but he didn’t, and instead finished off his second beer
and went for a third.
    “Let
him be,” Jace said.
    “You
don’t see me going over there and hauling his ass back to finish this, do you?”
Travis said and lifted a brow.
    “He
just needs to find a good woman, and running through the town pussy like he
does is only making him lonelier, I think.”
    Travis
stared at Jace , surprised to hear the other man
saying something sentimental, emotional even.
    Jace looked over at him and flipped
Travis off. “I’m not getting all mushy, just that I’m done hearing him bitch
about having to sleep with these random townies instead of having a woman he
can come home to.” They were silent for a moment, and then Jace sighed heavily. “I’ll be honest. I’m tired of the random hookups, too,
brother.”
    Travis
looked down at his scuffed and worn boots. His jeans were dirty and