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“Oh, because you are so busy with all your friends,” Megan said, grinning.
“I can’t help it if all my close friends are getting lucky and left me out in the cold. Now I’m busy binge watching TV at night. What if I like a show this fictional guy doesn’t? I’m not giving up watching something because they don’t like it.”
Both girls started to laugh at her. “We have more than one TV in our house,” Raina said. “Cody and I don’t watch the same thing all the time.”
She looked at Megan. “Don’t look at me. I don’t see Jonah enough to worry about that.”
“And you are okay with that?” she asked.
“Yeah. Like you, I don’t want someone in my space all the time either. It sounds to me you are just making excuses though.”
“Whatever,” she said. “If you two don’t have a work conversation for me I’ve got to get this done so Royce can pick it up tomorrow.”
“Let’s go, Megan,” Raina said, smirking. “Chloe needs to figure this out on her own.”
“Nothing to figure out,” she said. “I’ve got work to do.”
Both girls left and she did what she said she was going to. She got to work and tried to push Royce from her mind. Too bad it never seemed to happen.
“Did you get anywhere?”Garrett asked Grant before he could sit down in his office. He’d rushed in and shut the door behind the two of them.
“No,” Grant said. “She’s like a vault. Either the two of them are extremely clueless to the potential we see or we are way off.”
“We aren’t off on this one,” he said. “No way. We’ve been watching the two of them look at each other for years when they worked together. We noticed it a long time ago.”
“I know,” Grant said. “That’s part of the reason we named her to this project. Not that we wouldn’t have done it regardless based on her work alone, but it’s been over a year and nothing from these two.”
He sighed. “I never expected it to be this hard. I talked to Richard a few weeks ago and he said Royce never slows down to even want to meet a woman.”
“I can’t believe you told Richard that we thought Chloe and Royce would be perfect for each other,” Grant said.
“I know. Normally you’re the one with the loose lips, but this time I couldn’t help it. Maybe it had more to do with hoping Richard could push on his end. This is getting tiring, don’t you think? I thought for sure something would have been going with those two before Megan.”
“I know,” Grant said. “Royce is going to come get the new plans tomorrow. I’m going to make sure he has to get them in Chloe’s office. We just have to figure out how to keep putting them together and hope sparks fly.”
“Might be time for a field trip to the site when we know Royce is there too. Nothing like watching someone in action to see if it works.”
Grant started to laugh at him. “I don’t know what goes through your mind half the time.”
“Don’t knock it,” he said. “Sometimes we might have to get out of this little box we are in. I’m running out of ideas. Do you have anything better?”
“Sadly, no,” Grant said. “Let’s see what tomorrow brings before we try that.”
If they didn’t see anything soon, they were going to have to change tactics. Once Royce got these plans from Megan the two of them might not cross paths again until they got another tenant for one of the other open spaces. They were running out of time and space.
2
Totally Worth It
“Are you here to see Grant?”
“No,” Royce said. He stopped at the front desk hoping to get the blueprints and be on his way. “I’m just picking up the revised blueprints he had for me.”
“I’m sorry,” the woman said, looking around. “There isn’t anything up here for you. Normally they give them to me. Guess he wanted to talk to you.”
“Thanks,” he said. “If you can let him know I’m here then.”
Royce stood there and waited while the receptionist picked up the phone and called back to Grant, but he wasn’t answering. “Let me just try Garrett and see if he knows where Grant is.”
