Andrew: Lanning’s Leap: Erotica Shapeshifter Romance (Lanning's Leap Book 5) Read Free

Andrew said he didn’t know. “Why do you even care?”
    “I don’t know that either.” Andrew leaned back on his chair. “To be honest with you, since we closed up the search and rescue business I’m bored to death. I find myself listening to the scanner to see if Murph might need me to come and help her out. By the way, she might be a little touchy about me. I think I might have pissed her off.”
    “Yeah, I heard.” Of course he had. And Andrew was pretty sure that the rest of them had as well if he had. “What the hell were you thinking going into her interview room like that? And then proceeding to let the man she was talking to think you were with the police?”
    “I told you. I’m bored.” He’d been screamed at for over an hour by her, threatened with arrest, and she’d told him she was going to tell his mom. That was the most powerful threat to him. He, like the rest of his brothers, were scared shitless of their mom. As he was pretty sure the women were as well.
    “Okay. And I’m only asking, not saying I’ll do this, but what is it you want me to do?” He grinned at his brother. “You already have an idea what is going on, don’t you?”
    “No. I mean, yes, but not really. I know that for some reason this person’s sales are being shared with the shift. Sometimes even on other shifts. I can’t find out anything other than the person’s last name…is Summer. First initial is a B.” He handed him what he had on the employee. “You’d be surprised at how little information I’m able to get from anyone. This guy, Blair Warren, the man who is helping me get my feet wet, as he called it? He said that the systems are forever down so he can’t get me what I asked for. And every time I ask for a key to the filing cabinet, he tells me that I don’t need it. I’m going to have to have a long talk with this guy before I fire him.”
    “He does realize that you own his ass, doesn’t he? And if he’s not playing ball, how did you get this?” He told him that Max had helped him. “And can he figure out why this is going on? Or is it another thing you want to do because you’re sick of pissing off your sister-in-law, the town sheriff?”
    Andrew thought about what he was doing. And why. He’d been bored, just as he’d told Phillip he was, but it was more than that. Andrew felt useless. Not only that, but he hadn’t found a damned thing to keep himself from not getting into trouble. Not until this came up.
    “I told her I was sorry and she said she understood. Then she told me if I darkened her steps again, unless I was being shot at, she might shoot me herself.” Phillip laughed. “I have my house the way I want it. I’m educated, have money to burn, but I find that is just fluff. I need something to do.”
    “You want to go back to work for Rescue?” He told him no, not ever again. “Me either. I mean, I’m bored too. Not like you are because I have a mate, but I am sort of lost until we get that shop up and running. Charlie has her business going now. Mom and Hannah are enjoying working for her, but I feel like I’ve been set out to pasture. I’ve even taken up golf. Christ, I hate that shit too.”
    “So? You’ll do it?” Phillip said he would. But only for a few days. “Thank you. So much. I just need to know. I will tell you that I might end up closing it anyway, but I just wanted to do something.”
    After his brother left, Andrew looked over the paperwork again. Max had told him that the systems were never down, nor did he see any reason for them not to give him access to the files. He knew that his nephew was holding something back, but until it became clear that it was necessary for him to know it, he wasn’t going to let Max tell him. Andrew really needed to do this.
    Two weeks ago they’d closed up their search and rescue business. It had been a relief really, to know that he’d not have to go out on those sort of jobs again. The search part of their job meant