Page 113 of Family Bonds- Kelsey & Van

“I look at your father and see where I want to be. Where I see myself. I just don’t know how to get there.”

“He’s the one you need to ask, Van. Don’t compare though. You’re your own person and will do things your way. Take it one day at a time. It’s all you can do.”

Just like he’d been sitting back about talking to her father about the last envelope in the bigger bundle.

She was dying to know what the heck her father knew or where this damn key he had went to.

It didn’t seem Van was as curious as her.

Or he just wasn’t ready.

She was positive it was that more than anything.

And one thing she learned, you can’t make someone be ready when they aren’t.

31

GETTING DOWN TO THINGS

“Ihear you had some excitement over the weekend,” Kyle said to him Monday a little after three.

Van had left work and come straight here.

“Did Christian contact you?” he asked.

He hadn’t said a word to Kyle about why he wanted to meet. Just asked if they could.

“Saturday morning my phone was ringing. He wasn’t happy,” Kyle said.

“Nope,” he said. “He didn’t appear to be. Most of it was directed at me. Said I had no right to do what I had.”

Kyle leaned back in his chair, his hands on his waist, and he laughed. “You had every right to do what you did. I heard his side of the story. Why don’t you tell me yours if you want.”

“If I want?” he asked.

“Well, you own the business. You handled it the way you saw fit. I can tell you what Christian told me, but I find that might get you off track of what happened if you’re correcting things.”

He liked that Kyle thought the same way he did.

He told Kyle everything that happened. Even from the food at the restaurant since he knew Kelsey would comment there.

“I didn’t call you on Saturday. You’re entitled to time off. Though I’m sure you don’t get it. But I handled it. There wasn’t much to do in my eyes. Christian was too busy comping the offenders. I still haven’t heard the names of those that complained.”

“I’m sure Christian would have put a stop to that. He felt he was in the right,” Kyle said.

“He’s wrong.”

“He is. I think he’s waiting to see if I’ll intervene.”

“You haven’t?” he asked.

“Nope. I left the running of the hotels to Barry. We talked things over, but this isn’t something that makes its way up to the owners, the CEO or President or any title you put on it. Shit like this happens all the time in a hotel.”

“Which is why I didn’t contact you.”

“I don’t like whiners,” Kyle said, laughing. “That is what Christian did. He played the child game of coming to me first to give his side.”

Guess Van played this right in his mind. All he did was act the way he’d want if he was in Kyle’s shoes.

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