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He’d play it off as being forgetful and hopefully could get away with it.

“What do you think of her?” Garrett asked. “She’s a gem, right?”

“I can’t believe you guys said that,” he said. He knew these brothers could be ballsy, but damn, he wasn’t expecting to have it be right out like that.

“What?” Grant asked. “You asked for our help and we’re getting desperate. They’ve been working together for years.”

“I know,” he said. “And my son hasn’t made a move once. It makes me wonder why you think they’d be good for each other.

“She knows what she is talking about on a professional level,” Grant said. “She holds no punches back. She’s not clingy by any means.”

“How do you know these things?” he asked.

“She’s friends with Ryder’s sister-in-law. I hear things.”

“Grant snoops,” Garrett said. “But everything he said is true. She is calm and in control. She likes her space and privacy. She isn’t going to be someone that has to have a guy with her all the time and you said that has always been an issue with Royce.”

“True,” he said. His son never put his personal life first. Too bad he took after his old man and Richard hoped he could get his son to see that wasn’t the way to live his life. He’d be alone a long time if he kept it up.

“We are putting them together again. Let’s see if it gets us anywhere,” Garrett said.

“How will we know?” he asked.

“That is the tricky part. Now we have to start to sit back and see what happens. They will be working together on another project. If we have to push again we will. With the holidays coming up, we’ve got parties and events lined up. We can get them there together too. They are both single and probably have no plans.”

“I’ll have to take your word for it,” he said. “Keep me in the loop and I’ll try to do what I can on my end and hope to God Royce doesn’t find out.”

“We won’t let on,” Grant said.

“Please,” Garrett said. “You always slip and say something.”

“Me? You do it just as much,” Grant said.

Richard left the two brothers bickering and went back to the fourth floor to check on the work since he sent his son off to lunch.

6

Go For It

“Iknow you’re busy,” Chloe said when they pulled into a pub parking lot. “We can make this fast.”

“It’s fine,” he said. “I don’t often get a lunch hour. Half the time I’m sitting here eating a sandwich and working or eating and talking to the guys.”

“That’s too bad,” she said. “I do eat at my desk a lot, but there are a few of us at the office that get together when we can. It’s nice to break away and have a few laughs and get out of the work mode even if it’s for thirty minutes.”

She had to admit she did enjoy the time with Raina and Megan when they weren’t talking nonstop about their relationships.

She’d never been much of a jealous person but found lately she was.

More so now that she knew exactly what Grant and Garrett were doing and with whom.

She had to decide if she was going to take a page from Megan’s book and tackle this head-on.

To her that meant letting Royce know and getting his read on it.

Yep, might as well go for it. It’d be better than the slow dance they were doing. A sloth could mate faster than her.

She almost laughed at that comment. Guess she was craving sex more than she thought and sitting next to Royce in his truck wasn’t helping matters any.