A Nanny For The Mechanic

By Cass Kincaid

Gray:
Terra Payton thinks I'm an obnoxious jerk. And that's fine. My daughter is my entire world--no one else's opinion matters. That is, until Terra becomes my little girl's nanny and turns my whole world on its axis.

Terra:
Gray might be older than I am, but he's certainly not wiser. He's everything I want to avoid in a man. But he's a single dad and I'm unemployed, so when he needs a nanny for his daughter, I offer. But one little lie quickly turns my world upside down, leaving me in a fake engagement with Gray and learning that there might be more to this obnoxious mechanic than he's led me to believe...

 

A Nanny For The Mechanic is a standalone enemies to lovers romance story featuring an older man and younger woman, no cliffhanger, a happy ever after, and a whole lot of steam.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cass Kincaid
• Release date: Jan 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393945253

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Chapter One

Gray

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Man, shit just keeps getting better and better. Gray couldn’t catch a break. Or, at least that’s how it felt. He tossed the wrench in his hand down onto the concrete floor of the garage, the clatter of it giving him a moment’s satisfaction. He was just fucking lucky he’d thrown the wrench instead of the cellphone in his other hand.

Fine, he grunted into the phone, still pressed to his ear. I’ll figure it out. Hell knows I always do. He hung up despite being able to hear the apologetic woman on the other end still blabbering on and saying she was sorry.

She could be as sorry as she wanted, but that didn’t change the facts—Gray no longer had a babysitter for his five-year-old daughter, Allie, and he needed to get shit straightened out.

Fast.

Talking on the phone at work, a gruff voice said from behind him. How professional.

Gray turned. He was filthy dirty from replacing the wheel bearings in the front end of the Corolla in front of him, black smudges lining his chiseled, stubbled cheekbones and coating his hands. He smelled like an oil can and had just received a crushing blow from the daycare centre Allie had been attending for the past six months.

He didn’t need his dad’s shit today.

It was the daycare, he said. His father whirled around, eyes wide. Calm down, Gray added. Allie’s fine. Damn, he wished his dad cared about him half as much as he cared about his granddaughter. But they’re doing renovations to the building beginning next week, so Allie won’t have a babysitter for a few months.

As soon as his father registered that Allie was okay, his eyes narrowed again. Gray was never sure whether his stare was simple distaste for him, or unabashed hatred. Your mother will look after her, Gray.

Not a chance. Gray knew his mom would gladly spend every waking minute with her granddaughter, but Gray had vowed when Allie was born that he would not be one of those grown sons who relied on their parents to help raise their grandkids. No way. They could go on outings together, have sleepovers and whatever kind of fun stuff they wanted, but Gray would not have his own mother fulfilling the role of daily babysitter while he worked away under his father’s thumb. That was a hard enough pill to swallow without his mom bailing him out, too.

No need, Gray said dismissively. I’ve got it under control.

Gray’s father scoffed. Oh, please. You’ve never had things under control in your life. His dad was in his mid fifties, with graying hair at his temples and scattered throughout his closely-cropped beard. He’d run Radden Automotive since his own father had handed over the reins almost twenty-five years ago. Gray, being thirty-one and well past the age his father was when he took on the responsibility of a business as well as a family, had been a disappointment in Bart Radden’s eyes since the first time he’d been brought home under the influence of alcohol at the tender age of seventeen. While Gray had partied hard during high school and college, he’d never had trouble with the law since.

That didn’t mean a thing to his father, though. In his eyes, Gray had made a mistake, and that was all that was needed for him to be a mistake.

The best thing that ever happened to Gray was Allie. She hadn’t been planned, and her mother hadn’t stuck around since she and Gray hadn’t actually been in a solid relationship when she’d gotten pregnant, but Gray convinced her to keep the baby—his baby—and though they’d tried to raise Allie together in the first year of her life, Allie’s mother had wanted more in life than a family in a small town.

He let her go, relinquishing her parental rights to him and never looking back. He vowed to be the best father he could, and he’d spent the past four years doing just that. Even if it meant working for his