Lube Job

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He’s the rich kid who built a pristine garage across the street. I’m the grease-stained mechanic fighting to save my father’s legacy. We’re rivals. Enemies. And apparently, we can’t keep our hands off each other.

Cole Reynolds inherited two things from his father: a sixty-year-old garage drowning in debt, and a stubborn pride that won’t let him walk away. He works eighteen-hour days, lives on black coffee and spite, and has exactly one goal — win the Millbrook Custom Car Show and the fifty thousand dollars that will save everything his father built. The last thing he needs is the silver-spoon pretty boy who opened a pristine European auto shop directly across the street.

Julian Vance walked away from a four-hundred-million-dollar family empire to prove he’s more than his last name. Three years of building Apex Autohaus from scratch, and he’s finally ready to show the world — and his father — that he doesn’t need Vance money to succeed. The car show is his chance. The grumpy, grease-covered mechanic who glares at him from across Mechanics Row is just an obstacle. A very attractive, infuriatingly talented obstacle.

They’re supposed to be rivals. Competitors. Enemies fighting for the same prize.

Then Julian shows up at Cole’s shop after midnight, and the fighting turns into something else entirely.

What starts as hate-fueled hookups becomes something neither of them expected. Midnight encounters on oil-stained workbenches. Whispered confessions in the dark. A connection that terrifies them both — because Cole doesn’t trust rich boys, and Julian has never let anyone close enough to hurt him.

But when Julian’s family discovers his “rebellion” and uses Cole’s debt as leverage, everything falls apart. Now Cole has to choose between his father’s legacy and the man he’s fallen for. And Julian has to decide if love is worth burning every bridge he has left.

You’ll love this if you enjoy:

✓ Grease-stained hands on pristine skin
✓ “I hate you” → “I can’t stop thinking about you” → “I’d burn it all down for you”
✓ Workbench sex that leaves marks
✓ A rich boy who ruins his thousand-dollar suit crawling under a car to save his man
✓ Class difference tension that never fully resolves — because the friction is the point
✓ Found family with a meddling assistant who ships it
✓ Public declarations that make you ugly cry
✓ 65,000 words of enemies-to-lovers heat with a guaranteed HEA