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“Is she available and do you think she’d be willing?”

“She’s available,” Miles said quietly. He heard the sound machine going so Regan had to be meeting with someone now. “I’m not so sure about willing to be set up, but if she doesn’t know about it happening...”

“Who do you have in mind?” he asked. “We can work around the willingness of people. We are sly that way. And if we’ve got help...even better.”

“There is a certain sexy PI that I’ve noticed she looks at. I might have dropped a few hints myself.”

Grant grinned. “So you’ve started without us?”

“Let’s say maybe I’d like to see Regan hook up and loosen up at times.”

He cleared his throat. “Well now, I don’t need to know details.”

Miles laughed. “Come on now. You’ve got three kids and Garrett has four. You’ve been setting people up for years and some of them have babies before weddings.”

“We do good work,” he said, puffing his chest out. “But what they do together is their own business.”

Miles laughed at his smirk. “Fair point. Let me know what you need from me.”

“Perfect,” Grant said. “For now, keep doing what you are, but don’t push so much that she gets annoyed. I’m going to rally my troops and we’ll figure out another step. Betsy’s on board.”

“Betsy and I have this covered. Leave it to us. You won’t have to do much work at all.”

Grant left grinning after that. This might be much easier than he thought.

3

REWARDING AND FRUSTRATING

“You can leave whenever you want,” Regan said to Miles two weeks later. “I’ll be here for another few hours doing online sessions.”

She found that some of her patients preferred that and it opened up a wider range of clientele. She didn’t always have to worry about people being local or coming in late with traffic either. Also, not taking time off of work because she’d schedule them later at night a few times a month.

No way she was doing it every night of the week.

When she started her practice a few years ago, it’d been slow and she’d been a one-woman show doing it all. Booking clients, checking them in, processing insurance and other payments.

But the more clients she got, thank you video calls, the easier it was.

Especially since they had to pay right when the session started via credit card and then it was little to no hassle on her part.

“Are you sure?” Miles asked. “I can stay.”

“I’ve got it. Just a client from Charlotte. He’s new. You’ll get all his paperwork to put together tomorrow. Before that, it’s Katelyn Buchanan.”

“Oh,” Miles said. “I saw her name, but when you said it was a video session I assumed she’d canceled. She always comes in person.”

“She and Zachery do, but she asked if it could be via video. I’m not sure what is going on since they canceled last week.”

“I might have seen her going into Trent’s office last week,” Miles said.

“That could explain the change in routine. Just lock up after yourself.”

“Leave your door open,” Miles said. “That way I can wave my hand when I go so you know you’re alone.”

“Sure,” she said. She liked that Miles was protective, but he was probably a hundred and fifty pounds soaking wet and close to six feet. Sometimes she wondered if she could blow him over with a big breath.

He was fit with muscles that he showed off with his tight shirts and pants.

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