Her mother told her not to plan it all out.
Mom was right this time!
She brushed past the women beside her and made her way toward Chance. There was something about him that pulled her in instead of pushing her away. Other girls turned their heads away from Chance in school.
Not her. Not then. Not now!
Nothing about him turned her off. Nothing about him scared her…except the way he made her feel.
Which was magnified tenfold as an adult.
Too bad he just climbed in the truck and took off.
6
GIVE EVERYONE A SHOT
“Ican’t believe you want to come with me,” Gabe said the following week.
“I heard what Mom said last week. If I want her to cut back and give me more, then she has to feel as if I can handle it.”
Gabe laughed. “We know you can handle it, but you’ve never wanted to. Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad you’re doing it.”
She sighed. “If you thought I should have stepped up more, why haven’t you said anything?”
Her brother put his hand up. “I didn’t say that. I’m not even insinuating it. I know better. I’m just stating a fact. I’m glad you’re doing it. It’s going to be you and me running this place. I don’t see Jayce taking an interest.”
Her twin, Jayce, loved his job doing marketing or something for the Charlotte Hornets. She didn’t blame him.
He got to walk away from the family responsibilities and he’d still reap the rewards of it at some point.
“Nope. You and me, we are the tough ones. So what is going on today? Fill me in so I don’t stand around looking like an idiot.”
“That’s never been you,” Gabe said and grabbed his phone off his desk. “Let’s go. It’s the second commercial building. We are meeting Grant and Garrett there first. We are going to put up an additional structure in the parking lot for storage units. Some tenants are asking for it.”
“Steel units,” she said.
“Yep. Something we can throw up quickly. It’s figuring out the spacing and how many. I think the city is sending over a code enforcer too so we can get it right the first time.”
“And this is the first time I’m dealing with someone like this.”
Which was even better in her eyes.
“It’s nice to get out of the office once in a while,” Gabe said. “I know you like to look at your numbers and all those spreadsheets.”
“You do the same,” she said. Blueprints for her brother though. She heaved herself into the truck and buckled in. “You have to know my job too.”
“Thankfully, we trust each other enough that we don’t have to know as much as the other person.”
“It’d never happen that we know the other’s job,” she said. “On either of our parts.”
Her brother went to college for engineering and construction. The same as her father. Her mother had a degree in accounting, just like Jocelyn.
Funny when she thought of it that way.
She’d looked up to her mother for so many years. Maybe it was when she thought she was going to lose her that she truly saw just how incredible Stacy McCarthy was and set her sights on becoming just like her.
Not to judge people.
