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“No. He’s gone now. Not sure how much you heard.”
“All of it. Most guys would have moved away after the first comment.”
“I thought so,” she said. “But he must think he’s special or something.”
He grinned at her smirk. “Or it’s you,” he said.
“Meaning I’m some flighty girl that would fall for it?” she asked, raising an eyebrow.
There he went putting his foot in his mouth. “Hardly that.”
“Good,” she said. “Flighty or airhead has never been applied to me before.”
“I wouldn’t have ever thought that either.” His dinner was brought out and placed in front of him. He could take the plate back to his office like he planned or stay and eat.
He had his mother in his head telling him to at least try so he lifted his hand to get a drink to go with it.
“What can I get you, Wesley?” Trisha asked.
“The IPA on tap.” He looked at Jasmine’s almost empty glass. “Would you like another? I know you’re alone and like it that way.”
She laughed. “For that guy I was. Maybe not so much for someone else.”
A grin filled his lips. “Another wine for the lady.” His eyes landed on the remains of her nachos. “How were they? I had no idea they were here tonight or I would have gotten some.”
She laughed. “Your mother was here earlier talking to me. She said it was just like you to get nachos. They were great. Try them if you want. I’m stuffed, but they aren’t warm anymore and they are better warm.”
He reached his hand for her plate and snagged a chip off and popped it in his mouth. “Not bad.”
Her hand reached for his plate and grabbed a fry. He liked she’d done that. “Neither are these.”
He picked his burger up and asked before he took a bite, “Things okay with your sister?”
Her mouth opened like she was confused. “What?”
He chewed fast. “Your sister was texting you the other day. Needing a shoulder I believe you said. Or something like that.”
“That’s nice you remembered that. And asked. Ivy is good. She’s the airhead flighty one of the family. I know it’s horrible to say that, but it’s true. It’s just too bad she finds men who feel that way too and then gets upset when they leave her because she wasn’t good enough.”
“Screw them then,” he said.
“Pretty much my words. I’m sure my other sister is telling her the same. It comes from the way we were raised. Ivy is the most insecure and we all try to help her, but she has to find her own way.”
“And how were you raised?” he asked. “Or you can tell me to get lost.”
“I won’t,” she said. “It’s not really a secret and earlier I found myself telling your mother anyway. Which surprises me because it’s not something I do often.”
“My mother has a way of getting people to open up.”
“Must be all the years of being a lawyer,” she said. “She told me.”
“It’s not a secret,” he said.
“And neither is my unconventional upbringing. I was home schooled all over the world. I didn’t come and live in America until college.”
“You weren’t born here?” he asked. “I don’t detect any accent.”
“I think you need to stay in one place long enough to have an accent. My father is part of Doctors Without Borders. Every few years we moved to his next assignment. I wasn’t born here. None of my siblings were either. I was born in Peru and have dual citizenship. Not that I’d go there to live, but I could.”
