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She laughed. “Considering what your father did today. I’m going to say you are pretty slow even with the knowledge in front of you.”
“What?” he asked, the fry in his hand stopping and more ketchup falling. “Shit.” He grabbed the napkin again and wiped it up and threw the fry down. “You’re joking, right?”
“Geez, don’t sound so offended. I didn’t think I was that much of a troll. You did mention earlier that you said it’s hard to not notice I’m a woman.”
“I didn’t mean to offend you. It’s just there is no way my father is in on anything like this.”
“Are you so sure about that? The Fierces are pretty sneaky and today was just another example of many I’ve started to notice.”
7
Pleasing To Look At
Royce sat there feeling like a fool on more than one level.
Good lord, he was eating like a slob dropping food everywhere, but it was hard when he was sitting across from Chloe.
Her laughter. Her smile. Even her smirk was sending more beats to his heart than ever before.
He tried to keep it professional and yet still put his foot in his mouth more than he should have.
But the bombshell she just dropped on him almost had his ass lifting off the bench and running for the door to track his father down and demand to know what the fuck was going on.
No way his dad would do this.
Yet he was sitting there thinking of it and it was starting to make sense and only pissed him off.
“I don’t know,” he said. “I can’t imagine why my father would want to set me up with someone. He doesn’t even know you.”
“But he knows the Fierces and what they do. I’m surprised you didn’t.”
She had a point there. His father had brought it up a few times in the past few months. He shrugged it off as he had no care about others’ personal lives. Not when his was so dismal.
“I’ve got too many other things to worry about in my life than that,” he said.
“I can see that,” she said. “And just so you know, it’s taken me a long time to realize what was going on myself. A few of my coworkers who are happily married or in relationships thanks to the Fierces pointed it out. Once they did I saw I was the next one on their list. In the past week I realized who they were focusing on. Today just dropped my feet into the concrete though when I realized you were here and had no idea I was coming or what was going on. It’s not like Grant and Garrett to surprise their employees like they did unless there was an agenda.”
“The same with my father,” he said. “I’m sure he’s going to play it off as if it slipped his mind, but he’s as sharp as a tack.”
He was going to have to play this close to his chest to get information.
“I wanted you to know that I’m not falling for it. That is why I clued you in on it.”
“Thanks,” he said.
He wasn’t sure how he felt about that. Guess she wasn’t that interested in him. And he didn’t know why he was annoyed over that either because, as he kept saying, he had no time for anything or anyone.
“But,” she said, “I do find you pleasing to look at.”
She was laughing at him. “The same.”
She fluttered her eyes at him and did a little head wiggle and he laughed. “I’ve got a proposition for you myself.”
“I’m listening,” he said.
“Like you, I don’t really have a lot of time for a man.”
“I didn’t think you were that busy by the sounds of it,” he said.
