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Trying, anyway.
You do sound like my parents. That’s one of the nice things about being out of the house. Keeping my own hours.
Until now?
LOL. Until now.
I sent a winking emoji.
Fine. Bed. Have a good day over there. Don’t get killed.
I laughed out loud at that one. Which was a mistake. Ignoring the looks around me, I texted back.
Will try my best. Night.
G’night
I waited another second or two. Nothing.
And then looked up.
“What?” I asked no less than three guys all watching me. I wasn’t in the least bit surprised when one of them said, “Does the girl on the other side of that phone know you have the Irish curse,” he gestured toward his dick. “Or were you gonna tell her later?”
Time to pay the piper.
CHAPTER FIVE
zoe
“Can I talk to you for a second?”
The new hire, a spunky, fresh-out-of-college kid named Zach, popped his head into my office. He’d been hired just three weeks ago as our special events coordinator and had hit the ground running.
“Sure, come on in.”
I had an open-door policy. Literally, my office door was only ever closed when I was in a meeting. Everyone knew it, and though sometimes the policy tanked my productivity, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Sit down,” I said. Then thought twice. “Coffee? Water?”
“I’m good, thanks.”
He looked nervous. Let the life lessons begin.
“In this business, there are more sharks than dolphins,” I said, not sure where the analogy had come from, but now I had to run with it. “I’m a dolphin. Do your job, and we’ll get along. But if I were a shark, which you’ll meet plenty of if you stay in hospitality, I would smell blood right now.”
“You can smell blood?” he repeated blankly.
“I can.”
“Figuratively.”
I laughed. “Yes, figuratively.”
“I get it. Shit. I mean, crap. I mean, darn. I’m sorry.”
“Stick with your first instinct. And don’t apologize.”
Zach sat up a little straighter. “Shit,” he said, more emphatically than the first time.
