Aiden snickered. “You know you’re not my supervisor, right?”
Later that day, Mathew sat across from his brother, Jason, at the café he managed. He was taking his dinner break, and they were splitting a large sub sandwich. Mathew continued to glance in his brother’s direction, wishing he could ask the question without getting the third degree, but he knew better. Asking Jason was a good idea only due to the fact that he met a lot of customers. People came and went from the café. And he was good with faces.
“What is it, Mathew?” Jason asked, wiping his mouth with a napkin. “I can tell you’re about to burst.”
Mathew leveled him with an irritated look. “I am not.”
“You feel those crevices between your brows? They’re as deep as the Grand Canyon. Just spit it out so I can finish my half of the sandwich before I have to get back to work.”
Well, there was no backing out once Jason dug his heels in. “Have you seen a girl in here with blonde hair and green eyes?Her hair would be about this long,” he gestured. “And she has a lot of freckles across her nose.”
Jason paused with his cup halfway to his mouth.
Mathew’s scowl deepened and he stared down at his food. “Never mind. Forget it.”
“Some kind of lost connection?” Jason asked. At least he wasn’t making fun of him like his so-called friend. Mathew would get Aiden back for the way he treated him.
“You could call it that,” Mathew admitted.
A slow smile crossed Jason’s face, but it wasn’t the kind he wore when he planned to tease his siblings. It was honest happiness. “That’s awesome, man.”
“It’s nothing,” Mathew corrected. “I just…”
“You just…” Jason drawled.
“I bumped into her, okay? Like literally, we collided at the country club.”
For the second time in five minutes, Jason looked stunned. “You went to the country club? To go dancing or something?”
“There was no dancing,” Mathew said. “Rose dragged me there. She… there wasn’t any dancing,” he finished lamely. “Anyway, I bumped into her on the way in, and I was curious.”
“Curious.”
“Yeah, curious.”
“You want to ask her out?”
Mathew shoved his head into his hands and groaned, recalling the way the man had guided her out of the building. “I don’t know. She might be seeing someone.”
Jason chuckled. “Okay, so I know that’s not your style.”
“I just want to know who she is. I can’t get her out of my head.” He lifted his eyes to his brother, praying he’d understand. Jason had gone through something similar when he’d met Isabelle the first time. And as miracles would have it,the universe set them on a collision course a second time in their lives. They were soul mates, if something like that even existed.
“Hmm.”
“Just answer the question,” Mathew said with a groan. “Have you seen someone like that?”
“I see a lot of people. This town is small, but it’s not that small. There’s a chance I’ve met her. But I don’t know. You didn’t catch a name or anything?”
Mathew shook his head.
“I don’t know what to tell you. Sorry.”
“Yeah,” Mathew muttered as his phone started vibrating. “Me too.” He pulled his phone out of his pocket and saw Rose’s number flashing on the screen. He held up a finger. “Rose, what do you need?”
“It’s our mechanic.”
“What is?” He tossed a confused look at his brother.
