Page 92 of Loyalty

“So he’s fine with letting all of that go on, then?” Kev asked.

“Guess so,” Darren replied. “It’s that opening he’s been looking for, you know what I mean?”

“Yeah, it just might be.”

Siena moved to click the exit button from the browser just as her two brothers walked in the office. She just got the browser closed as Kev rounded the desk, and jerked his thumb for her to move out of his chair.

His gaze darted to the accounts on the screen that had replaced the browser. Siena gave a silent sigh of relief that the browser closed in time. She didn’t know how she would even begin explaining something like that to Kev.

“Move your ass,” Kev said.

“I still have work to finish up, Kev,” Siena told him.

Her brother shrugged like he didn’t give a damn. “Take a break, or something.”

Siena’s brow furrowed. “Since when do you want me to take breaks?”

“Yeah, well, Dad reminded me to keep you fed,” Kev grumbled as he began closing out the accounts on the screen. “There’s a plate waiting for you in the kitchen, and somebody stopped by to see you, I guess.”

“Who?”

“Just go find out. You’ve got an hour at the most, and then you need to get back to work.”

She gave her brother a dirty look before leaving the office. There was a plate waiting for her, but the waiter simply directed her out onto the floor, but not before grabbing a second plate to carry.

It was John waiting for her.

He sat at a private table away from the rest of the diners. Blocked off by a partial wall, he stared out the window until Siena came to sit with him. The sexy grin he flashed had her pulse picking up. He looked damn good with his dark hair slicked back, a well-fitted suit tight to his fit form, and that goddamn smile.

Standing from the table, John allowed the waiter to sit the plates down, and then the man scattered. John reached for Siena, and pulled her in for a quick kiss. For the most part, all they had gotten to do over the week was text back and forth. She was too busy with work and everything else to go out, or stay over. He seemed okay with it, though.

“Sit, and eat with me,” he murmured against her lips.

“This is why you texted me this morning to ask where I was going to be?”

“All you do is work, donna.”

He kind of wasn’t lying.

“So, is this …” Siena waved at the food, and then between them, “… like a date?”

John chuckled, and his smirk deepened. “Exactly that, yeah.”

“And what comes after said date, Johnathan?”

“Whatever you want, Siena.”

She laughed, and wagged a finger at him. “Smooth. Leaving the details up to me.”

“Hey, I got over here today, didn’t I?”

He did.

It meant the world to her.

Had someone asked her what she would like for a date, anything that didn’t include being within five miles of her family would have been at the top of the list. Johnathan managed to keep her within thirty feet of her family, and she didn’t mind at all.

All she saw was him.