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“It can happen organically,” she said. “With time.”
The fact he wasn’t trying to convince her he was right and she was wrong went a long way with her.
“Then I guess that is what will happen.”
Though any clients with those accounts could tag her and then where they found her too. She might consider asking them to do that. If she could work up the courage. Thoughts for another day.
The two of them got down to work at that point and he started to cook her lunch. She’d told him to surprise her and he was with a lobster dish.
They started to eat and talk. “Did you grow up on the island?” she asked.
“Yes,” he said. “When we were younger we lived here and went to school here. When Kelsey and I started high school, my parents bought a house in Boston and we went there for four years.”
“That had to be hard to just pick up and move jobs for a short period of time for your parents.”
He laughed at her. “No. My mother had the firm at that point on the island. Just a small branch. She had another branch in Boston that had more employees and she was splitting her time and staying in an apartment if need be. My father has business ventures all over the island, Plymouth, Boston and Cape Cod. Things that have been in the family for years or he’s done on his own.”
“The Bond family,” she said. She knew he was from it and some of the history. It was hard not to.
“That’s right. Growing up in Plymouth, I’m sure you know a bit about it. More so since your parents have a home here.”
“I do,” she said. “I know the history of the five kids. What branches do what things for the most part. I didn’t follow it much, as I haven’t been in Massachusetts for years.”
“I’m an open book for the most part. I’ve got a Masters from the Culinary Institute of America.”
“A masters?” she asked.
“I wanted it to be one,” he said. “I wanted to go to one of the best institutes that I could and it was still close enough to home. I’m close with my family.”
“I am with my parents, but being an only child I think I wanted to go out on my own.”
“Which takes a lot to do,” he said.
“It does. Did you work in Boston before you opened your restaurant here? It’s only been about three years, right?”
“I did,” he said. “I wanted as much experience as I could get and when I knew I was ready and had the perfect location I made the move. My cousins found me the property. At this point I was the only one living in Boston in my parents' home. They’ve still got it and they go there to stay now and again if they’ve got business to deal with.”
“Does your mother still have a branch there?” she asked.
“She does. She says she wants to sell it at some point, but Kelsey told her no. That it’s her legacy and she wasn’t giving it up. That my mother could manage them both and so can she. Since my father has enough business ventures and family there too, they come and go and split their time.”
“That’s nice,” she said, digging into her lunch. “Good lord, I’m going to gain so much weight if I eat like this some more.”
“You look good,” he said. “You’ve put some weight on in the past month.”
“I have,” she said. “I lost some before I moved. I’m sure you want to know more about it.”
“You’ll tell me if you want to,” he said.
“Not a good relationship. I got in a lot of debt while there also due to that relationship. It was best to come home and start over.”
“It can happen to the best of us,” he said.
“I doubt that,” she said. She couldn’t see him being taken advantage of like she was, but she wasn’t saying any more. No reason to lay all the drama out this soon. It’s not who she was.
After that though they did change the topic and talked more about the things they liked to do when they had time.
They kissed some more. She didn’t want to leave but knew he had to go to work.
