Page 56 of Fierce-Zander

She’d make a note of that in her file too.

“I’m not sure how you can keep it all straight,” Miles said. “Without going over your notes before they arrive.”

“It’s like girl drama in school with all your friends. I know you had a lot of girl friends. Didn’t you keep it straight?”

“I’m a pro at that too,” Miles said, waving his hand. “Everyone came to me for advice.”

“There you go,” she said. “After Zachery, I’ve got an appointment with Trent at ten.”

“To go over this issue with Sophia?” Miles asked. “Are you sure you want to do this?”

At the same time that Miles thought it was exciting, he was also nervous.

“There is nothing to be worried about. I’m going to get everything lined up with Trent and the paperwork. Then once Sophia signs it and gives me the information, I’ll meet with Zander to hand it over.”

Miles frowned. “You talked to him about it already? Or you have to make an appointment with him?”

“He knows what is going on,” she said, pouring creamer into her coffee and then looked up and took a sip.

Miles nodded and didn’t say another word on that. “The sunshine couple called and want to schedule another appointment. I told them you were booked pretty tight this week.”

She laughed. Maria and Colin were the “sunshine” couple, as Miles had dubbed them.

“If you can rearrange things for them, please do it. Sometimes people are willing to move an hour ahead or behind to accommodate. Otherwise, they will have to wait until their appointment next week.”

“I’m sure it’s not an emergency,” Miles said.

“Most likely not, but it’s refreshing to talk with them too. A couple that wants to work on things before a problem starts. Imagine that. Anything else we need to go over? Otherwise I’m going to review my notes before Zachery gets here.”

“I’m good,” Miles said and went to his desk. “Oh, one more thing.”

“What’s that?” she asked.

“Lunch. It’s important. I had to drop my car off to get serviced this morning and they gave me a lift. I thought I’d belate and forgot to package up a lunch. I’m craving Chinese. You want in?”

She pursed her lips. “I had it recently. No subs either. I forgot a lunch too. Must be Monday morning.” Or the fact she had Zander on her mind. “I’ll take a salad. You pick the place and you know what I like.”

“You’ve got it,” Miles said.

She went into her office, left the door open, and pulled up her file on Zachery to read things over.

“What’s the emergency?”Betsy asked Miles when they met in the hall. The minute he realized things might be calm with Zachery, he’d texted Betsy his SOS text, which meant a session outside to them.

“I got Regan to admit she had Chinese food recently.”

“Really?” Betsy asked. “Okay, now things are getting interesting.”

“Why?” he asked. “What did you find out?”

“That on Friday night, Zander had a dinner out. A business expense so he had to give me the receipt to bill.”

“Okay,” Miles said. “What is so interesting about that?”

“It was a dinner for two. With dessert and coffee.”

“So a long dinner,” Miles said. “Is that odd for him?”

“No,” Betsy said. “Sometimes it’s long because he stays longer than the person he’s surveilling. And I’m not trying to get ahead of anything because he’s gone to dinner with his sister, mother, or father. Even other guy friends. But he’s also gone on dates while he’s working too.”

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