“Do you want to get me arrested? She’s like ten years younger than me.”
“Which makes her nineteen. That’s pretty legal.”
“No.”
“Okay, how about Hillary?”
Tyler’s eyes widened. “Stewart’s sister? No way. There are certain lines you just don’t cross.”
“Fine. What about our new banker? Celeste, is it? She’s pretty hot, right?”
“Wrong! I can deal with the eczema, but the scratching…not so much.”
Matthew rolled his eyes. “Lily?”
“No.”
“Sasha?”
“I’d rather chew off my own arm.”
“Tamryn?”
“Married.”
“She’s married? I didn’t know that. I wonder—”
“This is stupid!” Tyler cut in. “We’re never going to find someone to replace Trisha becauseTrishais perfect, irreplaceable.”
“Firstly, we are not trying to replace Trisha. We’re trying to find a suitable candidate to make her jealous and secondly, Trisha is not perfect. You just don’t see her flaws.”
That was all it took to get Tyler riled up. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means what I said.” he replied bluntly. “She isn’t perfect. The woman goes to bed after you and wakes up before you because she doesn’t want you to see her without her make-up on. You have to admit there’s something slightly demented about that.”
“I appreciated the fact that she always wanted to look good for me.”
“She doesn’t like dogs or babies or anything cute and cuddly.”
“Which is something we both have in common.”
“She treats everyone who’s not in her social circle like dirt.”
“I never noticed that.”
Matthew shrugged. “Well, that’s the kind of person she is. If I were in your shoes, I would cut my losses and move on, but that’s not my decision to make. You want her back and, as your friend, I’m trying to help you so—”
Just then the door flew open, silencing Matthew, and in walked Jordan.
“Why don’t you try doing some work today?” she said, tossing the financial statements on the desk.
Tyler faked being offended by her curtness. She was always like that. Straight forward and to the point. Her brain-to-mouth filter broke about three weeks after he’d hired her. It mattered not that he was the CEO. Polite, sugar-coated words had never been her style. She was a tad disrespectful, slightly insubordinate, and unbelievably pushy at times. Make that all the time. And God help anyone who messed with her schedule. The auditors were here, so she was in permanent month-end madness mode and even he wasn’t about to risk getting on her bad side this morning.
“Weareworking,” he lied. “We were just discussing a really big business acquisition, weren’t we, Matt?”
Matthew nodded. “Yeah, really big deal. High priority.”
“Sure,” Jordan replied sarcastically and turned her attention back to Tyler. “I want it back by the end of the day. In case you forgot, we’re in the middle of an audit, so can you please pretend that we actually have a deadline and do this one thing with some sense of urgency.”
