Page 27 of Angels Above

“You’re busy,” he said. “I came to tell Brian and will let you know too. He said you’ll handle it. I came to an agreement with Neil on the pub and brewery. I’ll send over the information. He said to have my attorney draw it up and he’ll read it over and sign it.”

“No attorney to send it to for him?” she asked.

He sighed. “No. He’s pretty simple. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but his business is in good shape. He knows I’ve got an attorney to look things over on a business end.”

“Just one more thing you bring to the table,” she said.

“There is that,” he said. “It will work out.”

“It seems most things work out for you,” she said.

“Not as many as I’d like. I hope to change that though.” He winked and stood up. She got the feeling he meant her but would push that off.

It was too early to get worked up.

Which was funny since she was worked up last night that she blew it and now she was telling herself to pump the brakes.

He left her office shortly after that and she glanced at her emails to see if it was anything that needed her immediate reply.

There was nothing that couldn’t wait, but talking to Brian needed to be done.

“Got a minute?” she asked when she was standing in his office door.

“I do,” Brian said. “Come in.”

He was grinning at her. It’s like he knew what she was going to say. “I just met with Cal.”

“I sent him in there to talk to you. You know about the brewery.”

“Yeah. He told me. Did he say anything else?”

Brian was still laughing. “That you had lunch yesterday and he acted like an ass. That’s odd for him.”

“He didn’t act like an ass,” she said. “I just was taken back.”

“You mentioned Christmas. Once he told me that I knew what happened.”

She sighed. “Guess everyone knows but me.”

“There would be no reason for you to know. If I knew you were going to have a date I would have warned you.”

“He called it a date?” she asked.

“He did. Wanted me to know his intentions and that he was going to apologize and hope he could beg you to forgive him and give him a second chance.”

“You’re okay with this?” she asked. “You’re laughing over it.”

“What you do in your personal life is up to you,” Brian said. “You’re professional enough to not let it affect your work. If it did and things were messy, then I’d just deal with Cal, but I don’t see that happening. He’s not the type to end anything with people feeling bad.”

“Oh, really?” she asked.

“Wrong choice of words,” Brian said. “Cal doesn’t normally make people mad. If he does or it happens, he smooths it over. He’s got this mentality that he just wants to leave clean footsteps in the sand.”

“An interesting outlook on life,” she said.

“He’s an interesting person. Don’t you think?”

“Very,” she said. “Almost too good to be true.”

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