“Not really. I kind of just want to bury myself in some legal paperwork for now.”
“Sounds absolutely terrible. What if I take ya out to dinner tonight? Would ya be willin’ to talk then?”
“Andrew—”
“Ya need to talk. Your life’s been a little upended, and somethin’s obviously on your mind. Lemme treat ya to dinner, and we can talk about it.”
“Okay. Sure. That sounds nice. Thanks, Andrew.”
“Not a problem. I’m gonna go tell Dylan you’re here, and I’m just next door if ya need somethin’.”
“Thanks.”
I was excited she had said yes to dinner, but I was worried about her. She really did look flustered. Had something happened? Was she thinking about Wyatt? Had he said something to her to upset her? I was going to knock his fuckin’ block off if he’d done something to upset that woman.
“Knock, knock.”
I looked up with a smile on my face and saw Caleb standing at the door.
“Ah, just the man I wanted to see,” I said.
“Well, you’re very chipper,” he said. “What gives?”
“Got a dinner date with Katie tonight,” I said with a grin. “Wanted to let ya know since that was our agreement.”
“No shit, huh? Good luck, man. Lemme know how it goes,” he said.
I furrowed my brow at his comment. He wasn’t pissed? That didn’t seem right. I mean, I wasn’t lookin’ to intentionally piss off my brother, but I knew he had a thing for Katie too. That was why we were tryin’ to sort out all this information about her and Wyatt and Dylan.
Right?
“Thanks,” I said. “Whatcha need?”
“You put out an ad online in the Charleston area for applications for our resort?” Caleb asked.
“Yep. Opened it up yesterday,” I said.
“Got any hits?”
“None that hit the minimum requirements.”
“Send ‘em over to me anyway,” he said. “I wanna start siftin’ through ‘em.”
“You know Dylan’s gonna be pissed if ya hire someone else like ya did with that housekeeper.”
“Not my fault she lied.”
“I still don’t know how you managed to not catch that, and I still don’t know why she’s workin’ here,” I said.
“‘Cause she does good work and because that’s my area of expertise so you can shut your mouth on it.”
“Jesus, touchy much? I’ll forward these applications to ya. In fact, I’ll go into the damn post and change my email address to yours.”
“Even better. Try not to act like a dick tonight,” he said.
The rest of the day went by, and I had the brightest smile on my face. I couldn't wait to get some alone time with Katie. I wanted to show her what it’d be like to be with me. I wanted to show her a good time, to set a standard of how a woman like her should be treated.
And when I ran into her after work, I was ready to get going.