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Chapter Sixteen
The hostess, who might have been old enough to buy a legal beer, greeted Trey with a quick, flirty smile.
“Heard you were coming in.” She flicked Sonya a look caught between wistful and envious. “With a friend.”
“Sonya, this is Halley.”
“Sonya Poole?”
“MacTavish,” Sonya corrected.
“Right. I meant you’re up at the manor. Wow. Welcome to the Lobster Cage. Your table’s ready.” She picked up two menus, the wine list, then escorted them through the dining area to a corner table for two. “Ian will be your server tonight,” she continued as Trey helped Sonya with her coat. “Enjoy. Oh, Trey, my dad really appreciates your help with the… you know.”
“Give him my best.”
“I will. Ian will be right with you.”
“She’s crushing on you.”
“She’s twenty.”
“And still. She’s a very pretty girl, so you get points for not flirting back.”
“She’s twenty,” Trey repeated.
Their server, short, wiry, with orange-streaked dark hair twisted into a topknot, arrived with a cheerful smile. “Hi, Trey. Welcome, Ms. MacTavish. I’m Ian, and I’ll be taking care of all your culinary hopes and dreams tonight.”
“How’s it going, Ian?”
“Going good.” Grinning, Ian made a check mark in the air with his finger. “Aced it.”
“I never had a doubt.”
“That makes one of us. Can I start you off with drinks? A bottle of water for the table?”
“Wine?” Trey asked Sonya.
“That’s a yes.”
He skimmed down the wine list. “We’ll take a bottle of the sauvignon blanc. If that works?”
“It definitely does.”
He added a bottle of water before Ian walked off.
“So, since you know everybody, what did he ace?”
“Short version. Ian’s dad got sick a couple years ago, so he dropped out of college to come home and help out. Got his degree online, and now he’s working on his masters.”
“In what?”
“Environmental engineering. Ian’s bright and committed.”
“On behalf of planet Earth, I’m grateful. His dad?”
“In remission.”
