Page 51 of Family Bonds- Kelsey & Van

He turned his head and saw the one-cup coffee maker and made his way over. Might as well. The single cup of caffeine hadn’t jolted him enough at home.

“I think I’ll get myself another cup,” Kyle said. “My wife isn’t here to lecture me. Just like she can’t say anything about me eating this Danish. I hope you have one so I’m not left to eat them all. I don’t need the sugar rush or my wife to be poking at me.”

He snorted. “Guess I know where Kelsey gets it from.”

“You don’t know the half of it,” Kyle said.

This was the first time he was seeing Kyle again after he’d dropped the bombshell that he’d had two dates with the guy’s daughter.

In the past two weeks he’d just been shooting emails back and forth with Kyle and admitted that Kelsey explained a few things to him.

“You’re okay with this?” he asked.

“With what?” Kyle asked, popping his cup under the coffee maker when Van took his out. He grabbed a muffin that was sitting there and then moved to the small table in the corner that Kyle nodded him to.

“Me dating your daughter?”

Kyle laughed. “You haven’t dated her long enough to know that I’ve got no say in it.”

“I’m learning,” he said.

“Am I worried this is a conflict?” Kyle asked. “Not really. What you’ve got with Kelsey is between you two. What you have in terms of business is between us. If you mix them together and it gets messy, I just hope you’ve got a lot of towels to clean up. You’ll need them with her.”

“So noted,” he said.

“I will say one thing. I feel I have to as a father.”

Here it comes. “Go on.”

“Mess her up and you’ll have nowhere to hide on this island.”

“Is that a threat?” he asked, sipping his coffee.

“It’s a fact. Trust me. You don’t want to find out.”

“Those resources of yours?” he asked. He’d heard a bit about how Griffin Zale was the one who had told Kyle he was on the island.

The man was head of security for the casino and did a lot of work for most of the Bond businesses. Including Kyle’s and setting up the cameras for security in Van’s three hotels.

Since Griffin was married to Penelope Rauch, Van also knew that it was the same branch as Kelsey and closer than others.

He quickly learned who and where things were on this island and how they might affect him.

“Something like that,” Kyle said. “How do you want to start this? Do you just want to fire questions at me? Want me to explain in detail what was in those summaries? Maybe just tackle one hotel at a time. They all have different features, but the services offered are close to the same.”

“We can do each hotel at a time. I’ll ask questions if you don’t mind me interrupting and taking notes.”

He’d brought a notebook with him. Just like school.

“Not at all,” Kyle said.

Hours later his head was spinning and his fingers were cramped.

He got the basics and it helped a ton.

“What about the security?” he finally asked. “Are there issues with it? I know the cameras were set up and are monitored by staff.”

“Griffin set them up,” Kyle said. “But he doesn’t monitor them. If we need to hire security guards, it’s done at the hotel level.”

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