Chapter 53

Wild

"Come to the clubhouse for dinner," Liam tells me as he walks by right before the end of the day. The way he says the words, I know they aren't a request, it's an order.

"What time should I be there?"

"Six-thirty." He glances at the cell phone in his hand. "Tyler and I will be grilling, especially since we went from an ice storm right into spring." He gestures to the seventy-degree evening we've got going on.

"Do I need to bring anything?" I hope not, since the extent of my skills is picking up something at Walmart.

"Just yourself. We'll see ya there."

All of a sudden, the bay doors start closing and there's loud chattering amongst the guys. Nobody ever told me what quitting time is, so I raise an eyebrow at Liam.

"Time to go, you did good today."

I don't really want the praise to mean as much as it does, but for someone like me who hasn't gotten much in his life, it means more than it should. Out of habit I worked hard, and I hoped someone had noticed. The fact