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As luck would have it the lights were flickering in the conference room so it wouldn’t be a wasted trip for maintenance. It’s just he wanted to be the one to go see Roni and tell her, not have Janine do it.
And all these little things made him feel childish when he had the woman already.
He got up and opened his office door to go to the bathroom. He knew Roni would be up in a few minutes and this wouldn’t seem obvious that he came out when she was there.
Again, silly games that made him feel like a lovestruck fool, but it was working for them.
Or he thought it was when he came back through and saw Roni and Eli coming up the stairs and met them in the hallway.
“Hey, Eli. Look at you. Are you coming to fix the lights in my office?”
Eli grinned. “No. These tools don’t work. They are just for play. I want some real ones someday. I told my father that, but he said to spend time golfing.”
That was the big surprise gift the child got from his grandfather for his birthday. Roni had said that so far Eli hadn’t shown any interest in the sport that Jeff and his Grandfather Joe played.
“You have to do what you enjoy doing,” he said. “I’ve never been a big fan of golf, but I know a lot that are.”
“Do you like to fix things?” Eli asked him.
He looked at Roni and saw her grin. The fact she knew he planned it this way to meet them in the hall too. “I guess you could say I do a lot of fixing in my job.”
“You do?” Eli asked. “How?”
He’d opened the door to his office when Eli asked him that question.
“Trent fixes people’s problems,” Janine said. “That is what lawyers do at times. You go to them when you need help and they are there.”
“Cool,” Eli said. “Mom has some problems, but she never tells them to me.”
He noticed that Roni’s smile had dropped. “Don’t we all have problems in life?” he asked.
“I told Eli that,” Roni said.
“Mom’s car didn’t start the other day,” Eli said. “Could you have fixed that? She had to call a garage to come and take it away.”
He didn’t know anything about that and lifted his eyebrow at her.
“My battery had died,” she said. “It was a simple fix. And no one took it away. They just moved it so they could give it a jump, then I brought it to the garage to get a new battery.”
“Children,” Janine said. “They don’t always understand what is going on.”
“No,” she said. “Eli, was there something you were going to say to Janine?”
“Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat,” Eli said.
Trent burst out laughing over the mortified look on Roni’s face.
She glared at her son. “Eli! That isn’t what you say.”
“But it was funny. Even Trent is laughing. See,” Eli said, pointing at Trent.
“Sorry,” he said. “It was pretty funny. I’m sure I said that a time or two as a kid.”
“Figures,” she said, grinning at him. He winked and then wished he hadn’t but realized no one saw it but Roni.
Janine pointed to the big bowl of candy on her desk. “Help yourself, Eli,” Janine said. “I wouldn’t want to smell your feet. I’ve got two teenage boys. I know how bad it can be.”
Roni grinned. “Something for me to look forward to.”
