“Don’t tell your bearer about our meeting, not yet. I need him to meet the new me. And please call me Lucas. If I really want to be seen as a new person, I need to shed the old me, and that starts with my name. I’ll be staying at the inn in town.”
Scott nodded. “Don’t forget to make your next appointment with Marlow.”
“I will and thank you, nephew.”
Loki left Scott alone in his office, and he released the breath he had been holding. Even though the man had left, he could still feel his presence. Loki was powerful and could have killed Scott where he stood.
Is he really trying to change?Scott scoffed at the possibility of Loki changing his ways.But only time will tell.
Chapter Nine
“Hey you. Cassie said you wanted to see us?”
Quintus looked up from what he was doing when Miya and Arianna walked into his office.
“Yeah, how heavy is your workload right now?”
“I just finished Alphonso and Sirius's house. It looks absolutely gorgeous, if I do say so myself,” Miya said.
“And I have two more projects I’m working on,” Miya said. “Why?”
“I have a new job that will need both of you. It’s nowhere ready to be decorated, but I figured we could get it on your schedule so you can talk with the client to find out what he’s looking for.”
“Who is it for?”
“Scott Shelton,” Quintus answered as he tried not to think about how the man had made him feel that morning.
“What is he looking for?” Miya asked, pulling out her tablet.
“A total revamp that might take us all through summer to complete, and that’s just the first floor,” Quintus told them. “I went to his place yesterday to get an idea of what he wanted. I’m meeting him for lunch today to get more information.”
“All right, give us what you have,” Arianna said.
Quintus nodded and turned his computer monitor around sohe could show them what he drew up. He went through everything on what Scott had told him so far. He hadn’t touched the second floor, since he needed to do his own research on what a kinky playroom looked like. Plus he needed to find out more about BDSM.
Might as well kill two birds with one stone and do my research on BDSM and what a playroom is.
“How come you’re missing the second floor?” Arianna asked.
“I need to get more clarification on what he needs. Our meeting got interrupted.” Quintus looked at his sisters wondering if they were going to bring up Sareena.
“You can stop wondering if we know about Sareena,” Miya said. “Mama called us last night and told us.”
“And?”
Miya sighed just as Arianna spoke. “I’m not about it, but what can we do?”
“Be there for her and not let her think she’s done something wrong,” Quintus said.
“I know we can be hard on her sometimes, but I’m worried,” Arianna said.
“Why? She seems to have her shit together. More than I can say about us,” Quintus said.
“True,” Miya answered. “But I’m worried something will happen to her the way it happened with Mama.”
Quintus stared at his sisters. For the first time, he understood why they’d held themselves back from trying to find their mates and why they thought the way they did. They were afraid to be in a relationship with a partner who could turn out like their father.
“Not every man is like that bastard.”
