Chapter 7

Oddly, though, Jason’s challenge seemed to bleed out Andy’s nerves. He rocked forward on his toes, meeting it head-on. “What’s the house special?”

Scooter nodded. “Give us both a cheesy all the way and a bowl, same, okay? We’ll break you in the hard way.”

Andy cocked his head, studied Jason and then Scooter. He grinned. “I’m pretty hard to break,” he said.

Kat came up behind them. “You collecting stray puppies again, boss?” The Ukrainian dropped from her mouth in liquid syllables. She’d attempted to teach all of them after she’d started working there, but Scooter was the only one who’d taken to it. “He looks like he’s running.”

“Running from what, that’s the question,” Scooter answered her.

Jason sighed. Languages weren’t his skill and he’d never learned more than a handful of words in Ukrainian, even though he and Kat had been dating for some four years now. “Two cheesies all the way, comin’ up.”