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I nodded. “If he’s up for it. Not that I have much to get him up to speed on, unfortunately.”
“Greer hasn’t had any luck with the jobs you turned down?” Dad asked.
I shook my head. “They all found someone else since we last talked, which I get.” But their question reminded me of a missed call I had from my sister. “She called me yesterday, and I never got a chance to call her back. I was working on something.”
With that in mind, I excused myself from the table and punched in Greer’s number.
“Oh my gosh, you are alive,” she said. “I was starting to worry when you completely ghosted me yesterday.”
I rolled my eyes. “Glad you’re not being too dramatic this morning. I was in the office working on something when you called and forgot with getting Ian from Portland last night, we didn’t get back until midnight.”
“Did you listen to my voicemail?”
I winced. “No?”
“I don’t even know why I leave them,” she muttered. “You’re as bad as my husband.”
“I like your husband, so I’ll take that as a compliment.”
“What were you working on?”
“Poppy and I were organizing the shop since we haven’t booked a new job.”
She was quiet. “About that…”
“What?”
“If you’d listened to my voicemail,” she drawled, “you’d know.”
I straightened. “Did you book us a new job?”
“I think so, yeah. You know the farmhouse down the road from Mom and Dad’s? The one that’s been sitting empty for years?”
The plot of land was incredible, even if the house likely needed work.
“Yeah.”
“Well, the new owner called me yesterday.”
“Anyone we know? I thought everyone said it was left to family, and they didn’t want it.”
“The first part of the story is true,” Greer said. “She didn’t know about it until recently.”
“She renovating?”
“I don’t think she knows yet.”
“When are you meeting with her?”
Greer sighed tiredly. “I was supposed to meet with her in a couple of hours. She’s flying in from Seattle, but that’s why I called. Olive is sick,” she said, referencing her stepdaughter. “She woke up with a fever and said it hurts to swallow, so I think she’s got strep. I need to take her in today.”
“I can take the meeting,” I said.
Her pause was loaded.
“What?” I asked.
“I always take the meetings,” she said. “So you’d have to be like … friendly. And nice. And friendly.”
