Sins of the Past (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour)

plan.”
    Cole laughed. “I’ll get a beer and you can have a soda. Your woman told me she had to give you pain meds last night. Or in her words ‘this morning after you um…’”
    He laughed and Jacob couldn’t help laughing with him. That sounded like something his feisty little neighbor would say. Jacob was starting to learn that she wasn’t blessed with a filter between her brain and mouth. He wasn’t complaining though, her mouth was one of the things that had attracted him to her.
    “Come on, man.” Cole slapped him on the back. “Let’s make those plans and then you can tell me all about your sexy little neighbor.”
    Jacob growled as he led Cole out of the kitchen, but even he knew there was no anger behind the sound.

Chapter 10
     
    Lorna gyrated her hips to the loud music as she leaned over her toolbox looking for a particular size wrench. It was scorching outside and even with the two large fans she had blowing, she was dripping with sweat. She thought about calling it a day, but her stubbornness wouldn’t let her quit until she finished what she was working on.
    She had gotten the rebuilt original transmission in for the VW that morning. So Lorna had put on a pair of cut-off jeans and a tank along with her steel-toe boots and turned on the two large fans. She had to crank the music up so that she could hear it over the fans and got to work. She was almost done and knew there was no way her mind would rest if she went home in the middle of the job.
    Now, if she could just find the wrench hiding in her toolbox, she could tighten the last few bolts and get out of the sweltering heat. “Stop hiding from me damn it. I know you’re in here, you bastard.”
    Lorna finally saw the wrench she was looking for. “Of course it would be the last one I picked up.” Happy that she finally found the tool she needed and could finish the job, Lorna stood and started shimmying her hips, doing a happy dance as she sang along with the music. When she spun around, she ran face first into a hard chest. Large hands caught her arms in a strong grip keeping her from falling when she bounced off. “What the hell, Cole?” she shouted over the music when she looked up into his baby blue eyes that were twinkling in amusement.
    The man had scared her to death and her heard pounded to prove it. When he let her go, she went over to the radio and turned it off. “You scared me to death, jackass.”
    Cole threw his head back and laughed and Lorna joined in. She’d gotten to know Jacob’s friend over dinner the past two nights and really liked the man. His sense of humor matched hers and he had her laughing constantly. He made her feel other things as well, but Lorna chose to ignore those feelings. At least she was trying to. It was hard with the man standing in front of her looking like walking sex.
    Cole was about six feet tall. He was thinner than Jacob but had muscles covering his wiry frame. Add in his wavy blond hair and baby blue eyes, and Cole was beautiful. He may have been smaller than Jacob, but both men gave off an aura of danger and that was something that seemed to attract Lorna to both men like a moth to a flame.
    “What are you doing here, Cole?”
    “When you told me last night that you were a mechanic, I decided to come down here and see for myself.”
    Lorna didn’t take any offense to the man’s statement. There was a joking gleam in his eyes when he said it, and she knew he wasn’t trying to be mean. She looked around the shop and wondered what he was seeing. It was her pride and joy aside from her baby parked outside.
    When Cole had asked the night before where she had gotten the Camaro, Jacob had answered before she could. Beaming with pride, he told Cole she had built it herself. Cole hadn’t believed it at first until she took him outside and pointed out everything she had done to the car. Her knowledge of car parts must have convinced him because he seemed impressed with her after that.
    While he looked around the shop, she went over to the VW and got to work tightening the bolts on the transmission. It wasn’t until she had to bend way over to get to the last bolt that she was aware of Cole standing directly behind her. His nearness caused the hair on the back of her neck and arms to stand on end. Lorna shivered even though it had to be at least ninety degrees in the shop.
    “How long until you’re done here?” Cole asked as he molded himself to her back and peered over her