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Alittle before five on Friday, Braylon decided to go through his email. It’d been a crazy few days of putting out fires and trying to calm West down for something their younger brother Nelson did. So much for West giving Nelson a shot by sending him to Utah to get some information.
As he made his way through his email he landed on one from Lilian Baker. Could it be the same Lilian he had a lunch date with yesterday?
The one he hadn’t reached out to since. He’d gone down to the lobby around one today and wasn’t sure why. The chances of seeing her were slim and he hadn’t. He almost went to her office to ask for her but then decided that might be too much too soon.
The easiest thing would have been to get her email address from the company’s directory if he could.
Guess he didn’t need to do that since she figured out who he was.
He opened it up and read:Someone in my office saw us out to lunch together. They think you’re my fiancé now. And they know you. Which means I know you. Now I feel like such an idiot. I just wanted you to know.
He tried not to grin over the rambling. He could tell she was concerned, but he wasn’t. He noticed she’d sent the email before lunch. If he’d checked it then, he could have offered to meet and talk.
No, he barely had time to go down to see if she was around and then return. He’d been slammed back to back with meetings and West had gone to the Hamptons this morning.
He replied back imagining she might still be at work and asked if she could meet when she was done. She could come to his office if she wanted.
He went back to answering his emails and five minutes later heard his go off again, switched screens and saw it was from Lilian saying she’d be working until close to six, but they could meet at some point.
He typed back to come to the top floor and he’d leave instructions for her to be let in by the security.
He wondered if that was presumptuous of him, but he had work to do anyway. There weren’t that many around after five on Friday that he’d worry about.
Thomas left an hour ago for a meeting. West was enjoying the weekend while he worked with Abby by his side. Laken was somewhere on the road as always.
An hour later he found he was watching the clock. When six ticked by and then fifteen after, he thought for sure Lilian was blowing him off.
Or maybe security wasn’t letting her in even though he left clear instructions for him to be contacted.
He got up from his desk and decided to wander down.
The minute he got to the hallway he saw her step off the elevator.
He rushed forward and opened the door. “She’s here to see me, Bill.”
The security guard nodded his head and turned back to his station.
“Just one guard?” Lilian asked. “Now that I know who you are, I expected more.”
“As you know, you have to pass security to get in the building.”
But this floor was tighter. He wouldn’t tell her that there were cameras everywhere watching everything with security in a back room. Once everyone was gone for the night, alarms would be set and everything locked up. Later in the day like this, there were fewer on staff.
“True,” she said.
He turned to look at her. She was following behind him on his way to his office and her head was swiveling as she looked around. “Relax,” he said. “You look frazzled.”
“I’ve been embarrassed over a lot of things in my life but not for being an idiot. This time, I’m a naive idiot not knowing who you were. I was going to buy you some cheap lunch.”
He held back the laugh and turned to his office, his hand on her lower back. “I like that you asked me to lunch. I like it even more you didn’t know who I was.”
There was no way she could hide her reaction now. She couldn’t be playing him as he might have worried about other women.
He was the one who made the first move weeks ago to help her out.
“Why?” she asked.
