Page 88 of Family Bonds- Kelsey & Van

“Oh,” Bill said. “Is it new?”

She wasn’t going to give timelines. It wasn’t Bill’s business. “It’s serious,” she said. “I’m sorry you came all this way for that. And that you used the guise of doing business for it.”

Which pissed her off more than anything.

“What’s going on?” Lexi asked, moving in.

“Nothing,” Bill said. “I’m done here.”

He picked up his stuff and put it back in his bag, then flung it over his shoulder and marched out like a child having a tantrum.

“What did I miss?” Lexi asked. “Did you insult him with the way you were eating your candy bar?”

Lexi had a grin on her face.

Normally Kelsey would laugh, but none of this was funny to her.

“He came here to meet me,” she said. “He’s the one that sent me those flowers. He was someone I met online months ago. Like early summer or something. I’m still trying to wrap my head around this.”

“Are you kidding me? He stalked you?”

Kelsey let out a loud sigh.

Shit!

She was going to have to tell Van.

And Van was going to get all macho on her.

But if she didn’t tell Van, then her mother would do it or tell her father.

Her father would go to Griffin.

Yeah, this just got messy when online dating had always been annoying more than anything.

“I don’t think it’s stalking that much,” she said.

“You’ve been dating Van for months,” Lexi said. “You said you took all your accounts down and this guy still showed up. Sounds it to me.”

“Thanks, Lexi,” she said drily. “Don’t suppose you could not tell my mother this?”

“She was my boss before you, but I won’t say a word,” Lexi said.

“Thanks,” she said. “But we know there aren’t any secrets here either.”

“Nor would you want them,” Lexi said.

Kelsey went to her office and noticed it was three. She wanted to call Van and tell him. It’d be better to get it over with.

She picked her phone up and sent him a text to call if he got a minute, then went back to work.

“Hello,” she said a second later. Kind of sweet he replied so fast when it took him forever to do other things. Like open up some freaking envelopes.

“Hey,” she said. “Are you a clock watcher?”

“No,” he said. “Kind of. It’s a boring job most times. But my replacement came in and signed in and I got off. I wasn’t on a call. What’s up?”

“So do you want to hear something funny?”

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