Blaire yawns. It’s a quiet, sweet sound that lulls me into a state of relaxation too.
“Thank you for taking me tonight,” she whispers. “It was a lot of fun.”
“It was, wasn’t it?”
“I’d forgotten what it was like to have fun.”
Her body moves as I chuckle.
“How can you forget how to have fun?” I ask.
“I don’t know. I remember doing fun things a long time ago. I guess it’s been so long that I forgot how.”
“That’s sad, Blaire.”
“I know.” She burrows closer. “But tonight was fun. That’s what matters.”
I bend my face toward her hair and breathe her in.
I know she has to leave, but I’m going to miss this.
“Your brothers remind me of mine,” she says. “Yours are better mannered. Aside from that, they’re really cut from the same cloth.”
“You mean they’re all heathens?”
She laughs. “Yes. Except Wade. I like him a lot.”
“You don’t like the others? Wait until Boone hears this.”
“That’s not what I meant. I just mean that Wade is really interesting. We had a nice conversation.”
She traces the lines on my stomach. Each stroke makes me shiver.
“I had a thought while I was in the shower,” she says cautiously.
“What’s that?”
She leans back and looks at me. “I don’t know anything about what you guys do. I want to make that clear.”
“Go on …”
“Well, Wade was talking to me a little bit about your Landry project and how you need to maximize the revenue to justify the cost.”
I pull my brows together.
Is she actually going to talk shop with me?
“I read an article on the flight here,” she says. “It was saying how the Observation Decks create more revenue for the Empire State Building than the office space. I understand that the views won’t be the same. I mean, the Empire State Building has views of New York City. But, Wade mentioned needing an environmentally-friendly design, and I just thought that maybe you could implement something like this …”
I stare at her. My jaw is probably dropped.
Holy shit.
“Do you think that could work?” she asks.
“Oh, absolutely.” I twist in bed so I can see her better. “You might be on to something. Depending on how we position the buildings …” I imagine Wade’s latest set of plans. “If we move the one structure to the other side, there would be a clear view of the ocean. If we raise the building a few more stories …”
We could use the roof space like an observation deck. Maybe even turn it into a venue for events. There’s nothing like it in Savannah.
