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“I will admit that I struggle trying to find the right ones to use. It’s not just about their reach but the message they convey. The last thing I want to be responsible for is giving Blossoms any negative publicity.”
“Sounds like you’re pretty aware,” he said. “I think that is half the battle.”
“I’d like to think I am now,” she said.
Trial error and a lot of mistakes in the past.
The last thing she wanted was for the sisters to feel as if this was a charity job for her and she’d work her butt off to prove it wasn’t the case.
Their burgers were brought out a few minutes later. He got another beer; she got a soda. She liked beer like the next person but wasn’t someone to have more than one drink out.
“Are your parents still in Staten Island if you and Trace are here?”
“They are,” she said. “My father retired from NYPD and started his own PI firm. Trace worked with him for a while until he hit it big.”
“That’s a big change,” he said.
“Yes and no. Trace was in the Army. He did special assignments but was severely injured during an explosion. After he was back on his feet, he had to figure his life out. He’d always had a love for writing and storytelling and used his time while he was recovering to put it to work. It was years before he had a bestseller and worked with my father during that time. Then he went off on his own. My mother owns a salon and is still doing hair full time. They are both in their late fifties, so young yet.”
“They are,” he said. “My father died at fifty-three. Makes me ill thinking of it.”
She reached her hand over and laid it on his. “I really am sorry for your loss.”
Knowing he had no relationship with his mother and his only brother was the one that resulted in the divorce, it seemed as if he was alone in the world.
“Thanks,” he said. “It’s all good.”
“No,” she said. “It’s not. You’re still hurting from that and don’t try to brush it off. It’s fine. It’s human. We are all allowed to be that way. Don’t worry, I’m not going to think you’re nerdy or dorky. You’re far from any of that now and if my eighth-grade self had been smarter back then she would have told her friends to shove it and been your first girlfriend.”
“I’m flattered,” he said.
She felt the heat fill her face. “I’m glad because after the words were out of my mouth I realized I should think before I speak.”
“Nope,” he said. “Just speak your mind.”
Not likely, she thought.
Or not completely.
No one needed that drama.
6
JUST KARMA
Knox was running around doing his chores and errands faster than normal on Saturday afternoon.
Before running into Sage on Wednesday, he thought he’d be spending the weekend doing what he always did. Yard work, laundry and any other slew of cleaning that he put off during the week.
Somehow the house he didn’t spend a lot of time in always needed cleaning. Odd to him when he only spent time in the kitchen, living room and his suite upstairs.
Half the time at night, he was watching TV up there anyway.
He wondered if he walked in his sleep and purposely messed things up.
At four, he stopped everything and jumped in the shower.
Two dates in a row. Two dates in two days was more like it.
