Page 115 of Fierce-Zander

After thirty minutes, he was helping her put her gun away and they were leaving the range.

“My hand is numb.”

“It’s like anything else in life the first time you do it. You might get a bit sore. Some of your other muscles will be too because you were tensing while you fired.”

“Why is there a smirk on your face while you explain that?”

He laughed and nudged her a bit. “Maybe I’m thinking of other things that can get sore too the first time you do something.”

“No comment,” she said. “Nothing other than I’m hungry. Do we want to go back to my place for lunch or grab something while we are out?”

“We can go out to eat,” he said. Because he didn’t think she’d put up that much of a stink if they had this conversation in a public place.

“That works,” she said. “I’ll cook dinner tonight. We can figure that out and then stop at the store before we leave.”

When they got in his SUV her phone started to ring. He knew she was on call, but her phone rarely rang. She just got texts more than anything.

She pulled her phone out of her purse.

“Everything okay?” he asked.

“It’s my father.”

“Does he call you often?”

“No,” she said. “I guess I should get it. Hello, Dad. Everything okay?”

He could only hear one end of the conversation. Her face got red and she started to talk about Kellen again, then she stopped.

He started the SUV and pulled out while she sat there and listened to whatever her father was saying.

“Let me get back to you on that, Dad,” she said. More words on the other line and then, “I’ll let you know today. I’ll talk to Zander since we are together now.”

She hung up and he turned. “What do you have to talk to me about?”

“For some reason my father has decided to take an interest in my boyfriend and wants to meet you.”

“You’ve met my parents,” he said.

“I have and they are lovely people. I enjoy talking to your mother and sister and even your father when he’s in the office.”

They’d gone to dinner with his parents one other night. A last minute invitation that he’d asked her to attend with him.

He shouldn’t have been shocked his mother just wanted to see if they were still together and how things were going.

His mother could have just asked his father who saw him and Regan together more often.

Nope, his mother wanted to see for herself.

“Did your father say when he wanted to meet me and why?”

“He said that they are going out of town for Christmas and since I didn’t see them at Thanksgiving, he realized it’s been almost six months. Before I moved to my new office. I hadn’t even realized it. I think it was because they ticked me off right before that.”

“Why?” he asked.

“Because my father is Vice President of a bank. He got on my case about money and budgeting. He thought I was getting in over my head. I told him the rent wasn’t much more than what I was paying and the location was better.”

“Now you can prove it to him and say how busy you are just getting clients in the building alone. And everything the Fierces do for their renters.”

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