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“Pretty sure you’ve eviscerated each of us with your sharp tongue a few times over the years.”
“I’ve done no such thing.”
“Hmm,” he comments, earning him a shove to the chest and a pointed glare. “Okay, so perhaps you deliver your words with a little more finesse than Lena does,” he concedes.
“I really should talk to her about her delivery,” I muse, wincing when she yells at Gray to intervene, and using a few choice swear words to hammer her point home.
There are more muffled words, and then the deep timbre of Gray’s voice penetrates the thick wood of the door this time. “You should sit down, Lena,” he says.
“I quit, remember?” she fires back. “So you can’t tell me what to do!”
“Lena…” He sighs, and this time there’s no mistaking the pain in his voice.
Shit.
“Maybe you should open the door,” I say, pulling a face. “At this rate she might end up wringing his neck out of sheer frustration.”
York grins, his eyes twinkling with mischief as he leans against the door, pocketing the keys. “I’m not letting them out until they’ve kissed and made up.”
“We weren’t going to interfere,” I point out.
“If giving Gray the managerial job then telling him to sort this thing out between them isn’t interfering, I don’t know what is.”
Blowing out a breath, I tap on the door and say, “Lena, Gray, you’ve got until closing to come to some kind of agreement.”
“Agreement?” York sniggers. “This isn’t a business deal, Titch.”
“I’m well aware of that, York,” I snipe back, instantly regretting my snappy tone. York just gives me a soft, loving smile, and I thank my lucky stars he loves me as much as he does. He knows I don’t mean it, that I’m just stressing over my sister’s happiness, or rather her unhappiness.
“That’s in two hours, Pen!” Lena complains, her fist thumping against the door.
“I’m well aware.”
“Pen!Please, just let me out. I can’t do this again with him,” Lena says, her voice cracking.
“Again?” York pulls a face.
“Shit, I should probably let them out,” I whisper, having second thoughts.
“Pen,please,” Lena begs.
“Maybe we misjudged this whole thing,” I say, reaching for York’s pocket where he stuffed the door keys.
He grabs my hand and shakes his head. “Trust me, we didn’t.”
I’m about to argue with York, and force him to pass me the keys when Gray speaks up. “I’m sorry to do this to you all, but I think you should open the door and find someone else for the job.”
“Gray?” Lena whispers, and despite her protests I know she doesn’t really want him to walk away from this position, or more importantly, her. What she wants is for Gray to admit he’s in love with her, and her frustration and anger is because he refuses to do that.
“What are you going to do?” York asks, leaving me to decide my sister’s fate.
“Something tells me if I open this door then Gray will walk away from Lena forever, and I’m not cool with that. It’ll break her heart,” I whisper.
“Okay then…” York replies, waiting for me to decide.
Pinching the bridge of my nose, I make a decision and say, “Gray, you’re a good man. We all know that. You care about Lena as much as she cares about you, and I just want her to be happy. I don’t care about anything else, do you understand me…?”
“Go on,” York urges, as both Lena and Gray fall silent.
