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He hadn’t seen any part of her that wasn’t, but he didn’t work with her either.
He supposed in her position, not just being a family member trying to prove herself, but just a woman in her field, she had to climb more walls than men.
“You seem it to me,” he said.
“What I meant about bringing this to the table was exposure or job opportunities. Those in culinary school with me looked at it as an open invitation to a job.”
“Which you wouldn’t do,” he said.
“No. Even if they were worthy of it or good, they could find their own job like I was.”
“Not to be mean, but I’m sure many didn’t think you found your own job.”
“You’re not being mean but truthful and it was said. But I didn’t hit the ground running with my job at The Retreat. I spent several years working my way up. Hunter and my Uncle Charlie aren’t stupid. Family or not, you don’t put an inexperienced person in a five-star hotel and resort.”
Which went back to her family not taking the easy way out of anything.
“Not to mention all those celebrity weddings held there.”
“It’s not only celebrities but wealthy people who carry a lot of clout and can get our name out there more. The food is just as important as the atmosphere. I wasn’t letting my family down there.”
“But those you dated didn’t see that?” he asked.
“No. As I got older, even before I was running things, I still had responsibilities. I worked a lot and mainly nights. Always weekends.”
“Those not in the field wouldn’t understand that,” he said. “I do. It’s part of my job.”
“That’s right. So that was one obstacle. But many were willing to overlook it because of my name.”
“How nice of them,” he said drily of the strange faces of men who dated his girlfriend.
Then he wondered when he started to think of Grace as more than someone he was dating.
It didn’t seem to matter other than he was going home next weekend for a visit with his parents.
He wouldn’t ask her to join him. He knew she had to work and couldn’t get time off easily on the weekends any more than him.
He wasn’t put off she didn’t ask him to go to the wedding a few days ago. She’d brought it up in passing, he said he had to work and then it was dropped.
He appreciated that she didn’t put pressure on him to say no, but then Egan mentioned it and he knew damn well things could have been switched around for him to attend. It was one flight since it was a night wedding.
It was better this way in his eyes though. She’d told him how their relationship was the talk of the wedding and he knew how things went in their family.
The fact he wasn’t there might have gotten it out of everyone’s system for him to attend Carter’s wedding. Egan already told him yesterday he was going before Grace could ask him.
He figured Grace would bring it up today or tomorrow since Egan told him how the conversation went down.
No reason to be annoyed over it either.
“Your sarcasm is creating waves in the water,” she said. “But I felt the same way. So that was another thing to get past. Then let’s add on the fact that I live on an island that many don’t want to move to. Puts a wrinkle in relationships.”
“It does,” he said. “I could move to Boston and still work the same as I am easily. I like it here. I don’t want to leave it.”
“Good,” she said. “I’m glad to hear that. Not that I’m thinking of anything more than I’m glad to hear you like it here.”
He smiled. “I know what you’re saying,” he said.
“The last big thing I dealt with was men I dated wanting to know why I was working for someone else. That if I owned my own business I could come and go and do what I wanted. Hire who I wanted to work for me.”
