“Yay!”
“It was basically unanimous on all counts, so there wasn’t any reason to talk it out. The Changs had made a whole vacation out of coming out here. I talked to Sofia, and she said that they wanted to wait until the vacation was over and the kids were back to normal life, and then talk to them about it. So we should hear from them in a couple of weeks. But she sounded very excited.”
“Excellent. Blaire and Tasha seemed to hit it off pretty well. It will be so much better for Tasha if she has another wolf to be close to.”
“Definitely. That was one of the reasons I sent her to Chicago in the first place, they have such a big pack with a wide range of ages.”
“It was a good plan. Just because it didn’t work, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a smart play.”
“True. I spoke with Becky Park, and she said that she and Soo had liked everyone, but were a little worried about the size of the town. Now that they know they would be accepted, they want to do some more research about where they might be able to work, make sure they can make a real go of it. They’re excited to dive into that research and will let us know soon. I told them they should contact you, as you might be able to point them in some good directions.”
“Absolutely.”
“Adam spoke to both Brenda and Janet.”
“How did you decide who would speak to whom?” She had no doubt there’d been a debate on that.
“Well, first he got me to agree that one person would call the people we wanted to invite and one person would call those we didn’t accept.”
“You can say rejected,” Cindy said with a laugh. “It’s me you’re talking to.”
“Yeah, yeah, the rejected. So, of course, I said he should do the accepted and I would do the rejected. And, of course, he said he would do the rejected.”
“Color me shocked,” she teased.
“So we flipped a coin. I’m still not convinced he didn’t cheat somehow.”
“Pretty sure you’d be able to tell if he cheated. What did he say, how did it go?”
“He said Janet told him it didn’t matter, as she wasn’t interested in joining.”
“Uh-huh.”
“He said Brenda seemed pretty surprised, but in a trying-to-play-it-cool kind of way.”
“That’s all he said?” Myra kicked her feet up onto the coffee table.
“He said she was very reserved once she understood what he was saying, and got off the phone pretty quickly.”
“I guess that sounds about right. Are you going to tell me how many people recommended invite versus reject on her?”
“Oh please, everyone disliked her. They all mentioned she’d said something that rubbed them the wrong way, if not actively annoyed them.”
“You would think she’d be a little more capable when actively trying to get people to like her.”
“You’d think.”
Cindy heard a tone through her phone that signaled Myra getting a text. Then her own phone beeped with a message. “You check yours, I’ll check mine,” she said.
Hers was a message from Jonas asking if she wanted to come have dinner at the pack house. She quickly replied to tell him she was already making dinner for him. He texted back a kissy emoji and said he’d be heading home shortly.
“Hey,” she said, when she put the phone back to her ear.
“Hey. Apparently we’re having a pizza party here. I guess this is a sign that I should get out of the office and see what’s happening in the rest of the house.”
“I told Jonas I was already cooking and to get his sexy butt home.”
“Nice. You guys have a good dinner. I won’t even point out that you didn’t invite me.”
