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“They’re getting married in Arizona,” he forced out. “I need to ask if she can get away.”
“Chloe is going to need final numbers soon. You should get on that. This is happening in less than six weeks.”
Hale nodded.
“Cadence says it’s a frenzy. The press are all over you,” Tom noted.
“They’re stirred up. They’ll settle down.”
“I’m glad to see you have protection.”
“Elsa will have it starting tomorrow.”
“That bad?”
“My team recommended it, at least for a while. See if it dies down.”
“It won’t, you know.”
He knew.
He took another sip.
“She thinks the world of you.”
When Tom said that, Hale’s eyes shot to him.
“That was what won me over,” Tom said musingly into his glass. “Head over heels for you. I have bruises on my shin, Mika kicked me under the table so much, doing it every time Elsa gazed at you when you were talking, like pearls of wisdom were dropping out of your mouth, bouncing all over the room.”
Tom chuckled.
Hale twisted his head this way and that to relieve the tension in his neck and his gaze moved to Elsa.
She was smiling at Mika, turned totally toward the other woman in the couch, her attention riveted to her.
Her face was animated.
She was tipsy, relaxed, and happy.
She looked beautiful.
“Glad you found someone like that, son,” Tom was saying. “She’s not impressed with who you are, she’s just intoyou. You could be a builder or a bricklayer, if you were the essence of the man that is you, she’d want you. I love that for you. I was worried. I’m not anymore.”
Hale cleared his throat and took another sip.
Then he asked, “Heard from Matt?”
Tom took that hint too and launched in about his son.
Hale listened with half an ear, and he was interested in learning about Matt’s internship at a large animal vet hospital outside Prescott, Arizona.
But mostly, what was on his mind was a repeat times two.
She thinks the world of you.
And…
Head over heels for you.
