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Her father grinned. “And you didn’t want to do it.”
She rolled her eyes and it made her father laugh. “Fine. You were right. I was wrong. But itisa lot more work. And it will be more on Royce too. With the baby coming he wanted to take time off. We don’t want you doing any more.”
This part wasn’t a game to her. She did care about them and her biggest complaint was the amount of work it had put on everyone’s shoulders for the past almost two years since this started with the Fierces. She felt like there was a light at the end of the tunnel and should have realized that wouldn’t happen.
They’d looked at other buildings previously that didn’t pan out.
“Not a worry,” her father said. “Royce and I will work it out. We are just looking. Nothing is being finalized as of yet. I don’t need Royce with me to check the building over structurally. McCarthy’s will be there along with Grant and Garrett.”
Grant and Garrett being the lead on this, and their engineering firm would look over the structure with McCarthy Construction. Her family business did all the inside work.
And knowing that McCarthy’s was going to be there, meant a really good chance Gabe would be there too.
The reason she didn’t want to go and kept her distance from any of these business meetings, putting up more of a fuss than normal.
“Which means you don’t need me,” she argued. “We trust you and you know it.”
“Stop,” her father said. “I’ll treat you to lunch. You pick the place. If you behave, you can have ice cream after.”
She laughed and angled her head at him. He could always calm her down and cool her off. In her life she needed it more often than she ever let anyone see.
“You’ve got a deal.”
Elise had to get over this.
She was going to see Gabe just like she had for the past year. Like she had for years.
Their two companies did business together. Just because no one knew why she wanted to avoid Gabe didn’t mean she had to be rude.
Though she was. Just not around her father half the time. She didn’t need that lecture.
“If you need help in the office, we’ll look into doing that,” her father said.
“We’re fine,” she said.
“Talk to me, Elise.”
“You know I do, Dad.”
“Sit down and do it now,” her father said firmly.
She knew not to argue.
“Things are good. Busy is good. We got through the last project just fine. I mean it’s been well over a year of actual work and the rest of the spaces are close to being under contract on this building. The Fierces having Roni there managing the site helps a ton. The work on my end is just dealing with the renters when it comes time to pick out their finishes.”
Even then Roni Hollister had been taking a hand in that and helping her out when needed. But there were still other projects going on with their business that didn’t have to do with this commercial building.
She never thought they’d consider a second building when the first wasn’t completed.
“That’s right,” her father said. “And like the last property, if we decide we like it, we won’t probably buy it until close to the end of the year. Then McCarthy’s has to do the bulk of the work to the structure itself.”
McCarthy’s focused more on commercial buildings. Steel structures, the roofs and the windows, the flooring, etc. Exterior work there too. They had more and bigger equipment.
“So most likely the summer then,” she said, thinking of things in her mind. That was when the rest of their business picked up too.
“If we decide to go ahead with this, I’d say that is about the time things will pick up for you. But I do want to consider getting you some help. You can’t do it all.”
“Sure, I can,” she said, laughing.
