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Talon frowned.

Cass moved uncomfortably around in the chair, his gaze moving to Gil.

Gil’s mouth flattened, his knuckles whitening as he looked at Talon, waiting for an answer.

Studying the list, Talon rubbed his brow as if he had a headache coming on. He studied Kai. “Okay, judging from what you saw and did today, do you think the other pieces of equipment need as much rebuilding?”

“I haven’t really done any kind of inspection to honestly answer that, Talon.” Kai opened her hands. “But just seeing these two, the amount of rust, the amount of metalwork and welding it will take to replace badly rusted areas, yes, I think it’s going to be a pretty good estimate of what’s to come.”

“And you work with metal?”

“Of course,” Kai said. “If we had to replace a fender or some metal skin that took a bullet hole in an Apache, it was up to us to fix it. I’m good at welding, Talon. I’m qualified in specialty metals. I can do all this for you. But I need a good machine shop to do it in. And Harper runs a clean place and he’s got all the latest equipment to make my job easy and fast.”

Talon glanced at Gil. “Is Harper the only game in town?”

“Unfortunately, yes.”

“And the next closest machine shop would be Idaho Falls, Idaho. That’s a six-hour round-trip and that doesn’t account for the time Kai would have to spend at a machine shop,” Talon said.

“I know for a fact what he charged us today is about one-third less than what a regular machine shop would charge us,” Kai pointed out.

“Cass?” Talon held up the paper toward him. “Have you seen this yet?”

“No,” he said, taking the papers and quickly parsing the numbers. His brows moved up. “Well,” he murmured, looking at Talon, “Kai is right—these numbers are lower than normal.”

“Because Harper wants something in return from you, Kai,” Gil ground out.

All heads turned toward him.

There was no mistaking Gil’s words or his barely closeted anger. Kai shook her head. “I think all of you are going overboard,” she stated flatly. “Harper did not accost me this afternoon. I worked with José. I never saw him again.” She saw Gil grit his teeth. The man was jealous as hell.