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Chapter Two

“ R ory. I just saw Matthew LeBlanc at the bank.” His assistant, Lori, bustled into his office and dropped a Subway bag on his desk.

“No shit?” His cotton-candy-haired, gum-popping girl missed nothing that happened in Mt. Pleasant.

“No shit. He’s got his brother with him. The dude-I-got-wounded-at-war one. He’s a hottie.”

Again, no shit. Somehow, Matthew LeBlanc was just another cowboy while Luke LeBlanc oozed hot asshole.

Too bad said hot asshole was one, in a wheelchair, two, most likely straight and a former SEAL—making the possibility of getting to the aforementioned asshole highly fucking unlikely—and three, Matthew LeBlanc’s twin brother.

Of course, Rory did love a challenge. “Did they have a big bag of cash to deposit?”

“He looked pretty damned smug, boss.”

“Huh.” He bit his lower lip.

“I know, right? Weird.”

“Well, people are allowed to go the bank.” He hoped it had been to pay off the back payments .

“Yeah, and I’m allowed all the conjecture I want.”

“True.” Rory winked at her. “Thanks for lunch.”

“You bought it,” she said, waving before flouncing off.

Little turd. He did adore her. Rory stretched out in his chair, his back popping furiously. Damn. Maybe he needed to get out more. He felt as if all he’d done in the last few months was plot and scheme against a certain land developer.

Skullduggery was not a physically active job.

God, he cracked himself up.

He stood up as his phone rang and he tapped the Bluetooth headset. “Yeah, Lori?”

“I have Mr. Takashi calling from Tokyo.”

Oh, cool. Maybe there was something interesting going on—a catastrophe of mammoth proportions that would give him something fun to do. “Patch him through.”

“You got it.”

Rory geared up for a long discussion in Japanese-glish, glad that it would keep him from calling Elaine down at the bank and bullying her into jeopardizing her job by telling him what Matt and Luke LeBlanc were up to.

He kept telling people it was dangerous to let him get bored. No one ever believed him.

“ Konnichi wa, Takashi-san . How are you today?”