“It is. It’s going to work well. Might even be the best branch seller once it’s done. Finding employees is going to be the hardest part.”
“I find it funny you’ve got to pay rent to your brother when he is going to own ten percent and you own a few percent of the casino.”
“It’s all about business,” he said, putting his arm around her. She skirted out from under it and he held his sigh in. She was still skittish about people seeing them and it was killing him to keep pretending as if he didn’t love the woman next to him.
He wanted to touch her.
Hold her.
Kiss her.
Even flirt some.
Do those things when he wanted and not always guard his every action.
Her dinner with her father went well and he had to remind himself that was the start.
It’d been just over two months at this point, not two years.
The fact he was meeting her mother tomorrow and staying the night in Canada was a plus. He was lucky to be able to get one of Egan’s helicopters to take them there and pick them back up the next day. Crossing the border wasn’t as easy as flying from state to state.
“Do you think your parents are ready for us? I mean it’s really early.”
“We’ve stopped over earlier,” he said. “And you’re okay staying the night there? We can get a room here if you’d rather.”
“I’ll be fine. It’s not as if it’s the first they are finding out. And the house is so big and we are upstairs at the other end. Remember, we are just sleeping. Sorry, but I just can’t do, you know... with other people around.”
He laughed at the flush on her face. “I can wait until the hotel tomorrow. I have some restraint.”
She was still only staying on the weekends and he wasn’t sure how to get that to change.
Last night they’d stayed at his place and watched a small fireworks show. The bigger one would be tonight in Boston, but they wouldn’t be there to see it.
Eli was putting on one for the island. The second year. It’d been a massive hit last year and with the holiday falling on a Saturday, he knew damn well it’d be that way tonight.
He might not even be able to get a room in the casino because it could be booked. Though Griffin’s old place on the penthouse floor was open.
There was no reason to bring that up if she was content at his parents’ house.
“Let me text Eli to see if he’s around to get his donuts since we are here. We can deliver the other box to Egan if you don’t mind, then go see my parents.”
“That’d be nice,” she said.
He sent a message to his brother, then got a reply to come up.
“We are going to the penthouse.”
“He lives here?” she asked.
“Yep. He always has. I wasn’t sure if they’d stay once they had kids though the place is massive with a stunning view.”
They moved to the elevator, he pulled his phone out and held it to the screen, then hit the top floor.
“Is this like your place? No one can get up without a keycard?”
“It’s not just a keycard. Only a select few staff are allowed up here. That would be Griffin or one cleaning person. This elevator will go right to their suite and open up there. The other elevator goes to a hallway up there that needs access for another space.”
“I think that would make me nervous that people could walk right into my house.”
