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Probably, Ronan thinks, someone should have a talk to Adam about ethics, though he will always be pleased with Adam’s slow transition to his ride-or-die.
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- Part 4 of Pynch Week 2017
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‘I don't know what you did to this goddamned car but it is going to be expensive.’ Adam doesn't usually swear; Ronan smirks with a spark of undeserved pride.
‘fix her up real pretty for me,’ he tells Adam, knowing he’s going to get irritated silence in response.Gansey watches with barely-dampened disapproval as Ronan stomps around grabbing his boots, his sunglasses, his most ostentatious leather jacket, before finally calling out, “How are you getting to work?”
Ronan pauses, suddenly aware of how far it’s going to be on foot. “Can I borrow your car?”
“Christ, no.”Probably, Ronan thinks, someone should have a talk to Adam about ethics, though he will always be pleased with Adam’s slow transition to his ride-or-die. He probably has a bag packed for Ronan on the off-chance that he ever needs to get out of town in a hurry. He’d never leave his shop, but he’d send Ronan off with a full tank of gas and never breathe a word.
Ronan likes that in a man.He wonders if Adam thinks it’s hot at all. His face says ‘no’, but his continued association with Ronan says ‘maybe, but don’t push it’.
“Glad to see you made it back,” Adam says. “You know Gansey’s been texting me all evening?”
“That’s on him, not me,” Ronan replies. Gansey was the one who introduced them when Ronan needed a mechanic, and has regretted it ever since.Ronan feels a pulse of that dumb and irresistible love that every driver feels for their one-and-only crooked mechanic.
Ronan says, “I think I left some beer here last time,” because he has been trained out of explicitly inviting himself places and no further.
“Come on, then,” Adam tells him, heading back into the shop. “I’m sure you want to watch your highlights reel.”
He absolutely does. No one died today, he’s halfway to a friction burn from his steering wheel, and his favorite mechanic has a very pretty smile. Ronan is a creature of simple pleasures, and he is content. -
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