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“It’s good to see you again, too, lady.”
Lucky came to join them. “How are you doing? I’m surprised to see you in here. From what I’ve heard, you’ve been working your ass off over at the bar.”
Xander nodded. “I feel kind of guilty that I haven’t been doing the actual work. Logan and his crew are taking care of that. I’ve been busy with paperwork and planning.”
Lucky chuckled. “If you ask me, paperwork is much harder than real work.”
“Tell me about it,” said Xander with a rueful smile.
“How are things going? When do you think you’ll be ready to open?”
“We have the inspector coming in at the end of next week. Provided that we pass everything, we plan to open the doors on Tuesday of the following week.”
“Tuesday?”
“Yeah. We want to do a grand opening on the Saturday night. So, we figured we’d be better off doing a soft opening at the beginning of the week. You know, test out all our systems, and hopefully iron out the kinks.”
“Sounds like a good idea. I’ll come over on Wednesday or Thursday.”
“Thanks.”
Damon swiped a towel over his face as he came to join them. “Do you have your staffing figured out yet? Have you hired everyone you’ll need?”
Xander made a face. “Mostly. We’re still looking for one more person to cover the bar.”
Lucky raised his eyebrows at Damon. “If you’re thinking about leaving Taryn and going to work for these guys instead, I’m out of here. I don’t want to know; I don’t want to hear about it.” He let out a short laugh. “And I wouldn’t want to be you when Taryn gets ahold of you.”
Damon laughed. “It’s nothing like that. I’m happy where I am. I enjoy working for Taryn.” He turned back to Xander. “It’s just that someone I know is looking for more work. She’s covered some shifts with me in the restaurant – and she’s good – but since we’re going into the quieter season, Taryn’s not going to have many shifts for her anymore.”
“Who is it?” Xander asked.
“Her name’s Jade.”
“I don’t know her,” said Xander. “Although that’s not surprising; I don’t know many people here yet.”
“I only know her from seeing her out at the resort. She hangs out with Logan and that whole group. There’s Austin, the realtor, and … in fact, her sister, Amber, is Austin’s girl.”
Xander was still none the wiser. He knew that Austin was the broker, but he and Tori had only worked with Austin’s brother, Dallas.
Damon smiled. “To give you some context, Jade’s a good bartender. She’s the kind of girl who won’t take any shit – and there have been a couple of occasions when I was worried that she might give people some. She hasn’t. In my experience, she’s only ever been professional. I guess what I’m trying to say is that she’s…”
Lucky chuckled. “From what I’ve seen of her – from the customer’s perspective – she’s like Kenzie but dialed down just a tiny bit.”
Damon laughed with him. “Yeah. That’s the perfect description.”
“I’ll have to talk to Tori, but I have a feeling that she’ll like the idea. She’s been hanging out with Kenzie, picking up tips on bartending. Having a Kenzie clone working behind the bar with us might be a good thing. Do you have her number?”
“Sorry, I don’t,” said Damon. “I’d bet that Logan will be able to give it to you.”
“Or Dallas,” added Lucky.
“Thanks. We’re meeting with Dallas about the house this afternoon. I’ll see what Tori thinks, and if she likes the idea, we can ask him for Jade’s number.”
~ ~ ~
Tori checked her watch and gave Tino an apologetic smile. “This has been awesome, thanks so much, but I have to go.”
“That’s okay, I need to get back to it as well. Thanks for coming to see me. Like we said, we can give things a trial run for the first couple of weeks.”
