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“Yeah,” she said softly. “Sorry, boss.”
“I signed that NDA,” André reminded Johnny. “Technically she wasn’t spilling house secrets.”
Johnny’s lips pressed into a firm line. He sent a meaningful glare in Nikki’s direction and left.
Nikki sagged back into her chair.
“I’m not going to say anything to anyone,” André tried to reassure her.
“It’s not just that,” she said. “He’s looking out for someone.”
“Who?”
Her mouth relaxed and she smiled in a dreamy sort of way. Her eyes shone with unexpected emotion. “Oh, just his one true love. That’s all.”
See? When the hero makes the right choice.
She sucked in a breath, blinked a few times, and forced a smile. “I know I talk too much. I’m pretending to work on it. Anyway. Yes. That’s a very good idea. I’m going to call Asa. He owes me so many favors anyway.”
She picked up her phone and he stood.
“I need to get back to it.” He gathered their respective garbage and headed out.
And while he’d had the beginning of an idea for what to do with the lounge, it solidified in his mind.
He knew exactly what the lounge needed.
And her office was going to match.
She just didn’t know it yet.
CHAPTEREIGHT
PULL APART HEART
ANDRÉ
Renovating was a lot like archeology.
It was a lot of uncovering, discovering, and judging the hell out of choices made by the people who’d been there before you.
“What are you doing here?”
André was at the top of the ladder and glanced over his shoulder to find Asa standing in the doorway. He looked around the room and tugged on the wallpaper he’d spent the last hour trying to remove. He thought it was pretty obvious what he was doing but he answered anyway.
“Stripping.” André demonstrated by carefully pulling the large piece he’d managed to keep intact further down the wall while scraping the wall behind it with his putty knife.
He hated wallpaper.
He hated putting it up and he hated stripping it even more.
What an enormous time waster.
He took careful steps down the ladder, keeping the same applied pressure on the strip of paper until he reached the bottom.
Though, to be fair, this wasn’t as hard to remove as he’d thought it would be. Someone had started to remove it years ago, given up halfway, and painted over it.
Could have been the reason it wasn’t so hard to remove given that they’d painted over it with forty-five layers of acrylic paint.
