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Her face flushed and he got his point across.

Noelle stood up after that and it told him this meeting was nothing more than a bitch fest all along.

She opened the door and walked out. “Oh, hi, Nelson.”

“Hi,” Nelson said, then kept walking by. Probably was in with Braylon.

Nelson and Kenzie had been gone for over a week. Kenzie took the bar in Utah almost two weeks ago, then the entire immediate family flew there for Kenzie and Nelson to get married a second time. This time with family present.

Spencer knew it was happening along with a select few others. Then Kenzie and Nelson went on a honeymoon, returning yesterday.

He didn’t think he’d have this much drama in his new job but was finding it was coming from all directions, not even bad drama, but just more personal information than he’d been privy to before.

Which made him want to keep his relationship with London sealed up even tighter, but with what Noelle just said, he wasn’t sure that was going to be possible much longer.

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PUT HER FOOT DOWN

“What brings you by?” London shouted when her cousin Nelson popped his head into Paris’s office across from her.

Nelson turned. “Thought I’d come check out the digs. Sorry I haven’t been down. Just been swamped.”

“No worries. It’s not as if we haven’t talked or seen you.”

“I’ve seen you more,” Paris said. “Now that you’re back, did you want to meet about Penelope Plush?”

“We can,” Nelson said. “Didn’t want to stop in unannounced and put you on the spot for that.”

“Then why did you stop in? Because you’ve got a look in your eye that you’re going to tattle on someone. We know. Memphis was the same way,” she said, reminded of her younger brother.

Paris laughed. “She’s not wrong. He was a little snitch more times than not.”

“It didn’t look that way when I worked with him a while ago.”

When West invested in Phoenix’s business, Nelson went down to cut his teeth on his first big undertaking with Westoverseeing it. Once things were set, Memphis finished his MBA and came in and took over where Nelson left off.

Her oldest brother, Phoenix, was more about the science and his time in the labs. He wanted to create, not manage.

Memphis wanted to tell everyone what to do and slid right into the Director of Operations position with heavy oversight.

London knew that she and Paris would make a trip to Nix Plastics in the future to go over production and HR. Not to fix problems but maybe to prevent any from happening.

“He’s doing well,” Nelson said. “I thought you guys were, but maybe London is making more waves.”

“What?” she asked. “I haven’t heard anything.”

“Which is why I’m here,” Nelson said. “I finished meeting with Braylon not that long ago and I heard your name coming out of Spencer’s office.”

“I was on the phone with him,” she said.

“No, this was after. He was with Noelle. I hadn’t realized it until she opened the door.”

“Were you standing there listening?” Paris asked. Her twin stood up and walked out of her office to stand in the doorway.

She was still looking at Nelson and hoped nothing on her face gave away what was going through her mind.

“I did,” Nelson said. “I’m a pro at that.”