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“Then I’m nuts,” he said, shrugging cheerfully.
“As long as you can realize it,” she said. Seemed he wanted to brush this off and she’d do that for now. “There you go.”
“There I go,” he agreed. “Dinner? You still didn’t tell me why you took your last job.”
She kept hoping to avoid that but realized it might not happen.
She wasn’t sure why, but it felt silly to her now.
“Dinner could work,” she said. “How about I cook?”
“Really?” he asked. “Phew. I must not have messed up that badly if you want to cook for me. I hardly ever get home-cooked meals. Only from my grandfather.”
“You don’t like to cook?”
“It’s not that I don’t like it, I just don’t know how to do much.”
“I think you could do anything you wanted to in life,” she said. “Maybe it’s laziness.”
This time he burst out laughing. “I like you. Not many would say what you are to me.”
She felt her face flush. She wasn’t normally someone who flirted quite like this. Then she had to remember he was a client and in her office on top of it.
They would have to address this and she’d have to speak to Brian about it too. Full disclosure type of thing.
“Sorry,” she said. “That was uncalled for and inappropriate.”
“No,” he said. “It’s the truth. I never learned and never bothered to learn. I’ve got enough places to go get food and not pay for it.”
“Valid point. Many would say that is smart. Almost like having your own private cook.”
“I’ll be sure to mention that to my grandfather when he brings it up again.”
She grabbed her business card and flipped it over. She put her cell phone number on the back and her address. “Here you go. How does Saturday sound?”
“Sounds perfect to me.” He took the card, flipped it over and took a picture of what she wrote down, then put it in his pocket.
“Afraid you might lose it?” she asked.
“More like wash it. I’m not good at emptying my pockets when I do laundry.”
“Now you’re covered,” she said. “I’ve got your number. I could have just texted you the information.”
“Would you have reached out to me if I didn’t stop over today?”
“I honestly don’t know. I did think I offended you laughing when you were being serious.”
“Never,” he said. “I was going to reach out last night but realized I didn’t have your direct number. I could have emailed you. I’m sure you would have gotten it within minutes but face to face is better.
And showed the type of person he was.
Back to thinking he was almost perfect.
That could be dangerous, as no one was perfect.
It just showed how desperate she might be to find something that her siblings had.
“I appreciate that,” she said. Her computer was dinging left and right with email notices.
