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“Hi, Ted!”
“Hey there, Gracie. Nice shoes you’ve got on there.” He dropped down beside the little girl, ignoring her grandmother.
“I got them because I was good this week.”
Ted straightened and looked at her dad with a raised brow.
“She went to bed when she should have and ate her vegetables. You do that next week, and I’ll replace those Velcro things you wear.”
“I’ll think about it,” Ted drawled.
“Where’s the entourage?” Dylan pretended to look around him.
“Strangely not amusing.”
“Sore spot?”
“And then some.”
“Your sister-in-law is a piece of work, I’m not going to lie. She came into Phil’s this morning and started ordering Piper around.”
Ted winced.
“Yup. My girl doesn’t take kindly to that type of talk. It wasn’t pretty.”
“Sorry.”
“Not your fault, man. Remember that saying, ‘you can’t choose your family.’” He looked at his mother, who was walking away with Gracie.
“Amen.”
“We’re just about to head to the party. What time you coming?”
“What party?”
“The engagement party,” Dylan said. “We just picked up a gift because Grace wanted to give them something.”
“That’s today? I completely forgot.” Mr. Goldhirsh had issued his invite personally.
“It is. Fancy you forgetting. The man who diarizes everything.”
“I’ve been busy.”
“Right, your family. Got it. So, how’s things with you and Mandy?”
Not again.
“What things?”
“The romance things.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Denial is not just a river in Africa, then?”
“Mandy and I, we’re friends.”
“Okay, so I must have got that wrong, and it explains about the bank manager.”
