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Chloe hadn’t said much, just took notes but was told she’d be the lead on the blueprints with Grant approving it all. For him, it seemed pretty basic and no frills. They could hammer this out fast and that was the name of the game.

Once the blueprints were drawn up though.

“You can email me those pictures if you want,” Chloe said. “I made notes and dimensions, but I like to have references too.” She handed over her business card.

He had some cards attached to his pad. “Here is my information too if you want to send it to me once everything is decided.”

“We know what we want,” Tony Waters said. “Once you get us the costs we’ll set up an appointment with Olson’s to get to work on the contract.”

“Wow,” Chloe said. “I can get to work on this tomorrow with what I’ve got on our end.”

“Wonderful,” Grant said. “Didn’t I tell you she was a gem?”

“She is,” Tony said. His eyes were looking Chloe over and Royce was seeing red. The guy was probably in his forties and had a wedding band on, but that didn’t mean shit.

“If you aren’t too busy this afternoon,” his father said, “Royce, why don’t you and Chloe get some lunch and talk things over so she can get started? Then go back and meet with Elise on what you need. We’ll get some prices together in the next few days and get moving on this.”

He had too much shit to do to take time for lunch and wanted to say no. That he’d work on this tonight when he was home.

But his father was giving him the look that said don’t argue and this client has to feel as if he’s important enough to close this deal.

“Sure,” he said. “Maybe Chloe has things to do though.”

“Anything Chloe is working on can be pushed off for a few hours,” Grant said. “We’ll get this in place as fast as we can.”

“I’m good if you’ve got the time, Royce. Though I rode here with Grant and Garrett.”

“Royce can bring you back to the office,” Richard said. “It’s not that far from our place.”

It was fifteen minutes out of the way, but he wasn’t going to argue. He’d just find some place to eat close to her office.

“Now that that is settled,” Garrett said, “we'll see you back at the office, Chloe.”

“Guess you will,” she said, smiling.

The Fierce brothers left with his father and the clients and he remained standing there with Chloe.

He looked at his watch. “It’s not even noon. Are you hungry?”

“I could eat,” she said. “Wherever your truck takes us is fine with me.”

“How do you know I drive a truck?”

She laughed and looked him over the way Tony had her. “Good guess. You know, being a gem and all.”

This time he laughed with her.

“Too much?”Richard asked Grant and Garrett on the first floor in another unoccupied spot.

The three of them shook hands with Tony and then hid away so that his son couldn’t see them when he left with Chloe.

“No way,” Grant said. “That was perfect.”

“If you say so,” Richard said. “I’m sure I’m going to get an earful from my son later on why I put him on the spot and didn’t tell him we had this meeting.”

“You did call us yesterday though,” Grant argued.

“Only to verify the time. We knew about this days ago. It’s been hard to not mention it to my kids. They are both going to have my head for putting work on them last minute like this, but business is business and they know that.”

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