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“Great,” she said. The more work they gave her the better job security. Not that she had any worries, but this was exactly what she’d dreamed of for years and was glad that something in her life was falling into place.
They got in the elevator and went to the fourth floor. “No need for a hard hat,” Grant said. “Right now they aren’t doing any work above us. They are framing the offices and kitchen out with the bathrooms. Last I heard, the owners changed their mind on the flooring again.”
She started to laugh. “I almost feel horrible joking about that with Royce.”
She saw Grant and Garrett look at each other when she made that comment. She knew what they were doing.
Megan and Raina were right. She was next on their damn target list and she’d pieced it together that Royce was who they had lined up.
The only good thing she could say was she was interested in him, but she had to figure out how to take that step. Or at least figure out if he was.
For all she knew he was either clueless or didn’t care one way or another. If that was the case, then the Fierce men were on their own and she’d look for some other guy to get her juices flowing. She wasn’t going to be tied down to someone who wasn’t interested.
“Royce is good at covering things well and getting it done when it needs to be,” Garrett said.
She looked around the space and was thrilled to see it coming together. Since she drew the plans, she knew exactly what she was seeing. All the men working and moving around with supplies weren’t distracting her at all.
What was throwing her off was the guy on a ladder reaching up over his head, his T-shirt lifted and some pretty sculpted abs peeking out.
Damn, guess there was another guy that could get her juices flowing.
She continued to watch him with his hat on backward, some nice strong shoulders and biceps. He had a tape measure in his hand and was marking something out on the ceiling over his head.
“I told you it was off center, Bob. Damn. Patch this up and remeasure. The last thing I need is for the tenants to come in and decide that they want another change. The more we get done the less they have the option to move.”
That body she was trying to hide her drool from was Royce Kennedy and he was climbing down the ladder now and jumping off the last two.
He turned and caught sight of the three of them standing there watching the show.
“Good day to you, Royce,” Grant said.
“Gentlemen,” Royce said. “Chloe. I had no idea you were coming over.”
She smiled at Royce and his face turned slightly red. “Your father is meeting us,” Garrett said. “We are going to meet a client for the fifth floor in ten minutes. Chloe has done so much work on this building we thought we’d let her come along and check it out.”
She didn’t know they were meeting a client with Royce’s father. That information wasn’t shared. She wondered what she’d be doing while they met with the client. It’s not like she needed to be there when Grant was the lead engineer when it came to this building. Garrett dealt more with products than space. But since he was an owner in the building and the firm, it stood to reason he’d be here.
She knew if Grant or Garrett couldn’t make it, Drake normally stepped up with Ryder who was an architect. They were the next in line when it came to the buildings and did a lot of client visits on their own.
But this wasn’t a normal client either. This was another leg of their business.
“I didn’t know my father was going to be here today either,” he said. “He never said a word. But he doesn’t normally unless I need to be part of the meeting.”
“Richard called me at the end of the day yesterday. I’m sure he figured you’d be here anyway and he could pull you away. If not, it’s fine. It’s just a walk-through.”
“I can walk away for a bit,” he said.
“Wonderful,” Grant said. “Chloe, we wanted you to come up too as the engineer that would be doing the designs.”
“Of course,” she said.
This was huge for her to be part of a client meeting. She was both shocked and pleased and just hoped it wasn’t their way to try to bring her and Royce together. There was part of her that guessed it was, but she was going to take advantage of it on a professional front if she could.
“Sorry I’m late.”
She turned to see who she suspected was Richard Kennedy walking forward. He looked like an older version of his son, but she’d yet to meet him. She’d always dealt with Royce directly when doing work for Kennedy Construction.
She knew Richard didn’t work as much due to his health and Royce all but ran the operations now.
