Bad Boys for Hire: Ryker (Bad Boys for Hire #1)

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Author: Rachelle Ayala
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was the boss lady, so he nodded politely and said, “I’ll take it. I can start right away.”
    She slipped a twenty dollar bill from her wallet. “Here’s cab fare and my business card. I’ll see you at two o’clock. Two fifteen latest, or the deal’s off.”
    Without waiting for him to give the money back, she wheeled around and walked away, and boy did he enjoy watching her hips sway and the way the wind played with her hair.
    “God bless you,” he shouted after her, but either she didn’t hear, or she’d already written him off, deciding that he’d take the twenty and run.
    Except Marines ran toward trouble, not away.

Chapter Five
    T oo late , Terri realized her friends had seen the entire interaction. She wandered back into the restaurant to their expectant faces.
    “Omigod!” Leanna squealed. “You totally flirted with him, you slut, you.”
    Jolie patted her shoulder. “I thought he was going to tackle you the way he charged you, like a rutting male elk.”
    “Rutting male elks only charge other rutting male elks,” Sherelle corrected. “But what’s with giving him money? I thought you didn’t want to encourage panhandlers.”
    “Oh, she makes an exception for the hunky ones,” Nikki commented while looking at her smartphone. “I took a video. Too bad I didn’t get the sound. What did you say to him? What did he say to you?”
    “I offered him a job.” Terri smoothed her wispy hair and patted it down, then bumped her behind into the booth, edging Nikki to the corner. She hoped she sounded casual enough. It wasn’t as if she’d offered him a date.
    “Doing what? Delivering flowers?” Jolie’s eyebrows arched. “I can’t imagine but he’d scare away all the customers.”
    “Or, get a little action on the side,” Leanna said. “Think I’m ordering me a little bouquet and a bottle of bubbly this afternoon.”
    “Did you check his references?” Sherelle, always the voice of caution, interjected. “Rough looking guy like that. I bet he’s running drugs.”
    “He says his record’s clean. Former Marine,” Terri replied. “Only trouble he ever got into was unlawful sexual intercourse.”
    “Unlawful? Like what? He was caught with a prostitute?” Jolie frowned. “I can’t believe he admitted it to you.”
    “He was seventeen having sex with a seventeen-year-old girl, or so he says. They threw it out of his record.” For some reason, Terri felt the need to defend Ryker.
    “Sounds like a come-on to me,” Leanna said. “How much did you give him?”
    “Twenty bucks cab fare and my card.” Terri felt her cheeks heating up. She hardly dared to expect to see him again.
    “Ai yi yi!” Leanna exclaimed. “I’m going back to the flower shop with you. See if he shows up.”
    “Don’t you have a cake to bake or a piecrust to roll out?” Terri tried not to feel possessive about Ryker. After all, she’d been the one to give him a handout. “Besides, I don’t expect him to show up. Easiest twenty dollars he ever got. I ought to have him arrested for aggressive panhandling.”
    Four pairs of eyes zeroed in on Terri, making her squirm in her seat. Sweat dampened between her boobs and she knew she was making too big a deal out of this.
    She picked up the menu with a flourish and parked her nose in it. “Let’s order. I’m starved.”
    “Oh no, not until we take a bet,” Jolie, her supposed best friend from preschool play dates, said. “I bet he shows.”
    “Me, too,” Leanna chimed in. “He totally has the hots for you. Did you see how he catalogued your entire body?”
    “Well, if he did, that’s all the more reason for disappearing.” Terri desperately tamped down the flicker of hope that Ryker might have honestly wanted a job.
    “Oh, he’ll show,” Nikki said. “Can’t miss the chemistry in the body language. Here, let me rerun the video.”
    “I agree,” Sherelle concluded authoritatively. “He left his can and sign on the other side of the road and took

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