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“No,” he said. “Walk with me.”
The two of them stopped talking but made sure no one was around when they said the few words they had.
“What did you find out?” Grant asked.
“Nothing in terms of Chloe other than she spent the holiday with her family and made it clear she doesn’t want or need help.”
“They all say they don’t want it. But why would she bring that up?” Grant asked.
“She was complaining about being with her family.” At least he thought it was complaining. “I said we might have to do something about that and she said she was good the way she was.”
“Nope,” Grant said. “She’s not. Neither is Royce. It’s time to move on to plan B. Next week, don’t you think?”
“I think you’re right. I’ll touch base with Richard and we’ll get our ducks all in a row and get ready to release them in the water.”
He was rubbing his hands together. Two at once was going to get complicated, but it was fun too!
4
Damn Target List
Chloe was thrilled to be getting out of the office the following week and checking out the project that she’d been doing the plans for.
She’d been wanting to see how they looked, but work had been crazy busy. Normally she saw it slowing down at the end of November and into the holidays and Christmas, but it was more that everyone waited to the last minute and wanted what they wanted before they took their vacations.
“Thank you for bringing me here,” she said to Grant. She was riding with them, sitting in the back seat. It was midmorning and she knew they wouldn’t be long, but it was nice to see all her work in action.
“We should have done it sooner,” Garrett said. “I guess we lose track of things since we are used to coming here to see the progress ourselves.”
“How much of the building is actually occupied now?” she asked. She’d done the plans for three tenants, but she knew there were others on the project besides her.
“Only four right now,” Grant said. “Two on the first floor and two on the second. The fourth floor is where we are going for this. It’s the largest space for one tenant alone.”
“It’s been a lot of work but tons of fun,” she said when they pulled into the building. It was massive. Five floors, fifty thousand square feet. Each floor was about ten thousand square feet. The fact that one business was taking up an entire floor shouldn’t have been shocking with the number of employees they had.
“The fourth floor is giving Royce fits,” Garrett said. “A tech company that is all about being more relaxed than businesslike. They want open spaces to put cubicles up themselves or massive workspaces. That is why a lot of the walls had to come down again.”
“I figured that is what they were doing,” she said. “There were a lot of open spaces and my guess was they are going to format it the way they want as their needs came and went.”
She’d only had ten closed-door offices in the ten thousand square feet. Multiple bathrooms that would be shared by most of the staff with the exception of a few. Like the one she just added for the two owners.
“It’s a different world than we are used to,” Grant said. “The noise might drive me nuts when I was trying to work, but this generation seems different.”
She laughed. “You mean me and your children’s generation? I can assure you most of us like our own space.”
At least she did. Maybe that was why she was still single. Or so her family kept telling her. She liked her time and space and not always sharing it with someone else when she didn’t want to.
“Yes,” Grant said. “We mean you and the kids. But I’m not sure one of our kids would like to work like this.”
“I wouldn’t,” she said.
They parked and she got out and they walked to the front door. The building looked cold on the outside. An old manufacturing building that was reinforced for strength but not warmth. Again, not her style, but she didn’t have to look at it.
There was a lot of noise going on when they went in. “The tenants here so far don’t seem to have too much of a problem with the noise, but they knew coming in that it was going to happen. I think once the fourth floor is done it will help.”
“Those on the first floor probably don’t hear that much and since there is no one on the third right now, it might be perfect timing.”
“Which is why we decided to do it this way. Going two floors up from the closest tenants made it a little easier since the whole floor was getting worked on. And it looks like we’ve got possible tenants for the fifth floor too.”
