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I shook my head at him. “Seriously? Not even a welcome back?”
Whitton shot me a twin look. “Welcome back.”
“Now, you’re just being a dick.”
He arched an eyebrow. “Let me finish this email, and then we can go meet Harley.”
I flopped back into the seat across from his desk, grabbing a pencil and flipping it between my fingers. Whitt gave me an insufferable look. But I saw the edges of his lips tug up.
We might be opposites. Whitt, the realist, to my dreamer. The suit to my rocker. The serious to my go with the flow. But he’d missed my wild energy as much as I’d missed his evenness. That was how it had always been.
“What do you think of the job?”
Whitt shrugged. “It’s a job. I’m going to get a promotion next month.”
“Yeah? You know already?”
“I’m doing three people’s jobs. They’d be stupid not to move me up. Jordan said so anyway.”
“How’s it going, working for our brother?”
“Half-brother,” Whitton snapped.
I held my hands up. “Fuck, Whitt, half-brother, if you must.”
“I like him.”
I snorted. “You don’t sound like you do.”
“He’s a fair boss. Though I don’t work directly under him.”
“Nepotism and all.”
“Look at you, remembering vocabulary,” Whitton joked.
I flipped him off. “Anyway, Nora says hi.”
Whitt’s eyes flicked to mine. “Oh, yeah? You already saw her?”
“Surprised her at work.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Don’t use that voice with me,” I groaned.
“Don’t do things that make me use that voice.”
“I have done nothing.”
Whitt went back to his email. “You like her?”
“Nah, come on, bro. She’s my roommate.”
“Right,” he said, clicking a button.
“That’s the voice again.”
“Well, because I know you.” Whitton hit another button and then nodded. “Email sent. Now, you can continue to annoy me on the way to see Harley.”
“Finally.” I jumped up and waited for Whitton to pull on his black suit coat before heading out of his office.
“So, Nora?” Whitton asked, heading toward his shiny silver Lexus instead of my baby Subi.
I regretfully followed him.
“She’s cool, but she’s also Campbell’s little sister. He’d kill me if I looked at her wrong.”
“That may be, but she seems to be a very genuine person. She’s reached out a few times to help me acclimate to Lubbock.”
Once we were in the car, he took off toward campus.
