Page 63 of Fierce-Matt
“Ben,” Jolene said. “But that’s interesting. Does Matt like Carowinds?”
“He loved it as a kid,” she said. “I’m not so sure now. Why?”
“Well, I was chatting with Anya and we got sidetracked by the things happening in her life.”
“Such a shame.” Matt would fight hard for the Emersons. She couldn’t tell Jolene about that though.
“It is. I made a comment that she needed to have some fun in her life to relax. She said she was, that she’d spent the day at Carowinds yesterday.”
“Now that is something to think about,” she said. “I’ll have to drop some pins and see if they stick.”
“Keep me posted,” Jolene said. “I don’t know Matt well and I’m flying blind with Anya other than what I know of her as an employee the past few months. But I know what I saw at Ben’s wedding with the two of them and that is enough for me.”
“Your gut hasn’t been wrong once,” she said.
“It’s nice to be appreciated for the good work and taste that I’ve got,” Jolene said. “It only seems to come from our generation though.”
She laughed with Jolene. “Because we want to see our kids settled.”
Grace hung up a minute later and picked up her laptop to go to the conference room to meet with a client when her husband popped his head in.
“I’m on my way,” she said.
“Who were you talking to?”
There was no hiding this from her husband. “Jolene.”
“You admitted it. I wasn’t sure you would,” Tim said.
“You were eavesdropping outside the door, weren’t you?”
Her husband shrugged. “I might have learned it from you. What did she have to say?”
“I thought you weren’t interested in this.”
“Oh, I’m interested, but I’m not getting involved. There is a difference.”
She gave her husband a little playful nudge. “You don’t want to get your hands dirty. That’s the difference.”
“I plead the fifth.”
Grace hooked her arm in his. “You’ve been saying that since the day we started to date.”
“And it still makes you smile or laugh.”
“It does. I want that for Matt.” She lowered her voice. Her son’s office wasn’t that far away and his door was normally open unless he was on the phone with certain clients. “Jolene talked to Anya and found out she went to Carowinds yesterday.”
“How the hell did she get that out of her?”
She waved her hand. “That doesn’t matter. What matters is that Anya and Matt have been talking. We know that, we see it and it appears he’s not pulling her hair or putting whoopie cushions on her seat.”
Tim laughed. “Thank God those actions changed.”
“And she’s not running out of the room shrieking or calling him a jerk,” she said.
“You’d think he would have learned back then the first time she did it?”
“He’s a stubborn one. My point is, Matt loved Carowinds as a kid. So did Anya when we brought her.”
