“I didn’t mean with your diabetes. I meant with us. The last few days were a lot. I know.”
“It was great. I love your family. I really do. They aren’t what I expected and I might have worked myself up for no reason, but they’d been so good talking to me prior.”
“My family can be a pain in the ass, but they always mean well.”
“They do,” she said. “Better than my family.”
“Don’t let your sister touch your life,” he said.
Easier said than done.
31
FAMILY MATTER
“Rowan. There is a woman up front asking for you.”
He turned from the window where he was looking out onto the production floor when that announcement came through his phone.
They’d been back in Long Beach for five days now.
Sunday had been a long travel day. There were no direct flights unless he was in West’s jet, which took most of the family back to North Carolina.
With the time change, they’d arrived at four in Long Beach, but had been traveling for almost nine hours.
They’d gotten home, had dinner, then crashed in bed at seven. To them it was ten if they still went on East Coast time and they both were up early for work the next morning.
“Did she give her name?”
“No. She’s got some kids with her and said it’s urgent she speak to you. I told her without an appointment it wasn’t happening.”
He hated the dread that filled his gut.
“Without her name, tell her she’s out of luck. You can call security.”
The phone went dead, then less than a minute later, he heard, “Sandy Beach. She says she’s Saylor’s sister and she needs to talk to you right now.”
Fuck. That’s what the dread was.
Things had been going so well with him and Saylor, but she’d told him her sister kept calling and texting and Saylor finally replied that she was working and didn’t want visitors.
Guess her sister didn’t listen. Since she didn’t know where he lived, just showed up at his job with the kids to cause a scene.
Sandy would learn something fast. Scenes didn’t bother him. He was a pro at them in his childhood.
He left his office, Logan coming down the hall and intercepting him. “Where are you going?”
“What, are you my keeper?” he asked his best friend.
“I’ve been in the past,” Logan said, laughing. “But you’re heading toward the front on a mission.”
There would be no secrets from Logan. He was pretty sure Sandy was going to put up a ruckus downstairs and he didn’t want her in the offices.
“Saylor’s nut job sister just showed up unannounced from Arizona with her kids.”
“Seriously?” Logan asked. “No one knew she was coming?”
“If Saylor thought Sandy was coming, she would have left the state. Trust me.”
