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“Sure,” he said. He was trying to figure everything out in his head that he had to get done today.
He had five different projects going at once. Two at the same building so that helped somewhat and three spread out in Durham. His father was going to stop at one of them today to check in on it and take that off his list, but the other four were on him to either stop and get an idea of if everyone was on time or at least reach out to the foreman to talk.
He’d rather do it in person, which was why he’d stopped at one on his way here. He’d tackle the other two at once and leave himself the fourth before the end of his day.
Damn fall and shorter days meant not as much work was getting done. It might mean fewer hours for him running around, but it didn’t seem it when he was in his office late at night or doing work from home.
“Sorry,” she said. “Garrett isn’t answering either. They must be in a meeting. Chloe is the engineer on this, correct? Let me see if she has the blueprints.”
“Thanks,” he said.
Great, he thought. He wanted to try to avoid seeing Chloe because it felt as if he had to mentally prepare himself for those encounters half the time.
Which was stupid when he never cared all that much around women.
It’s not like he had time for one. When he tried to date it never worked out. He couldn’t balance work and them and gave up trying.
“Chloe is in her office. She said she gave the blueprints to Grant yesterday and would try to track him down to get them for you. She apologized.”
“No problem,” he said. At least he could wait up here for them.
He was waiting a good ten minutes when Chloe came rushing up to the front looking flustered.
Her brown hair was blowing about her face with her brisk walk...more like march...to the front. She had on navy pants, a white and navy shirt that buttoned down the front and navy pumps. He wasn’t sure if he noticed she wore heels before.
He could have been too busy looking at her face and trying to focus on her words since his mind always wanted to go in other directions.
“I’m so sorry,” Chloe said. “I gave Grant the blueprints yesterday afternoon and thought he left them up here for you. I just went into his office and don’t see them where they are normally kept and I’m trying to track him down. I just wanted to let you know.”
“No problem,” he said.
Ten minutes wasn’t the end of the world. He’d just been hoping to stop in, but most times Grant would want to talk to him if he could.
He watched Chloe rush away back down the hall. The receptionist said, “She’s probably checking in everyone’s office for him.”
“What?” he asked.
“Chloe is probably popping her head in everyone’s office looking for Grant. He could be on another floor though. She’ll end up having to call him.”
“It’s fine,” he said. “I didn’t say when I’d be here and maybe I should have been more specific. As I said, normally they are just left here for me to pick up.”
Five more minutes went by and the phone rang at the front. “Chloe said she found them and she’d be up in a minute.”
“I’ll just go back and grab them if it’s all right. She probably got her exercise in for the day.”
He moved past the desk and went down the hall. He knew where Chloe’s office was and knocked on the open doorframe.
“Oh, hi,” Chloe said. “I was just going to bring them up, but I wanted to double-check they were signed. I mean I know Grant would have done it, but after racing around looking for them and finding out they were in his office in another spot, I just have to be positive.”
“It’s fine,” he said.
She had them on her desk and was looking everything over, then flipping them back. “Do you want to see the changes before you leave? You might have some questions.”
“It’s probably smart if I do that,” he said, moving closer to her desk.
She was standing and her head was down, her hands on the papers. Small womanly hands bare of nail polish and rings. He tried not to inhale the clean floral scent of her hair. She didn’t seem the type to wear perfume and this was more shampoo he was guessing.
“I removed these three walls,” she said. “Now they’ve got two bigger offices side by side with a bathroom for them to share. Not sure why they wanted a shower in there, but more power to them.”
