Connor added, “Please don’t ask them all at once.”
He shot her a wicked devilish grin and she couldn’t help but giggle. “Okay. I know you’re not from Boston, but where are you from?” That was simple and not too personal. Start slow and then go from there. Like if you’re single. Not that she was really interested…but under any other circumstance and she would be.
“I was born and raised in Florida. But my mother married my step-father and I spent my troubled teenage years in Miami.”
“Troubled? Like jail?” she asked.
He shook his head. “Not because I was a saint, but because I didn’t get caught. I was kind of rebellious back then.”
“Many teenagers are. And I’m sure having a step-father come into your life during that time made it even more difficult.”
“I hardly saw him. Ralph worked so much and when he was home, he was with my mother. And he came with a daughter. She was just a kid back then. God, she was annoying.”
“Kid sisters usually are. I know I was to my older brother. I think I followed him around all day just asking him questions.”
Connor laughed. “You mean like you’re doing to me?” he teased.
“No. This is different. You told me to,” she smiled. “So what is your sister's name?”
“Kollette. She actually just got married a few months ago and now they’re expecting their first child.”
She couldn’t help it. Krista beamed. “Really? When is she due? Boy or girl?”
Connor shrugged. “I have no idea, and I assume it will be a baby.” Krista huffed and he added. “Hey, I’m a guy. I don’t ask questions like that.”
“I can’t believe your sister didn’t tell you,” Krista stated.
“She may have. I probably wasn’t listening. I’m a…”
“I know. It’s a guy thing. I hear it all the time from my patients.”
“Wait a minute. I listen. Okay, maybe a bit of selective hearing at times, but I do listen,” he laughed. “Okay. I think we should talk about you for a while. Have you always lived in Montpelier?”
“Yes.”
“Ever live anywhere else?” he asked.
“Only when I went to college. Montpelier is where I want to be. Thankfully, the OB/GYN that was here before me retired. Actually I have a feeling he retired just so that I would have my own practice here. Because Dr. Phillips was in great health and could’ve practiced many more years if he had wanted to.”
“Yet he knew you’d be the one who he could trust taking over his patients. I’m sure if he didn’t, then he wouldn’t have retired,” Connor said.
That really was the sweetest thing anyone had ever said to her. Krista didn’t want to like him, but he was making it very difficult not to.
“Okay, that’s enough about me. Let’s go back to you,” she suggested. “How long have you been working for the Henderson family?”
“Less than a year.”
“And before that?”
“Moved around a lot. Nothing long-term.”
She found that odd. He struck her as someone very…stable. “Why is that?”
“I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Thought about starting my own security company, but for now, this works for me.”
“Have you always done security?” she asked.
“You do ask a lot of questions you know,” Connor stated.