it, but he hasn’t gotten around to that yet.” She knocked on the security room door and waited for Shane to open it.
“Shane, this is my sister, Eve. She’s going to keep the store open for me on Monday.”
“Nice to meet you,” he stood and extended his hand to Eve.
“Likewise,” she smiled before gently nudging Alyssa’s arm in one of her famous “you go girl,” kind of nudges.
Real subtle, Eve. Alyssa was serious when she said she was not going to embark on a relationship journey with an employee. She watched Eve and Shane and the ease at which they seemed to communicate with each other. Eve had grown up so fast, and changed so much. She wasn’t just her little sister, she was a grown woman with a career and the tenacity and kick butt attitude to follow through. They were so much alike in so many ways, and in other ways they were so different.
When they left out of the security room and Shane closed the door, Eve smiled at her with a knowing look in her eyes. “Future brother-in-law,” she nodded.
“You are so crazy, girl.”
“That man looks at you the way Adam used to look at me,” and then came the somber look in her eyes. She knew it had to be hard for her to get through each day when she thought about the man she had lost that day. She was hurting so much and it nearly killed Alyssa to be there within reach and still not be able to do anything to help her, to take away the pain and the sorrow and all the heartache—she wanted to give her sister peace, but she was powerless to do so.
“Why don’t you go take your stuff upstairs and get some rest?” She looked out the windows. “Where’s your car?”
“I sold my car the week before going to Ireland. I didn’t think I would be coming back. Plus, shipping a car isn’t cheap. I rented a cute little BMW and it’s down the street. The parks in front of your place were taken so I had to circle around. I’ll move it later.”
“No, you’ll move it now. I’ll park my car on the street and you pull into my space back there.”
“Alyssa.”
Alyssa tacked her hands to her hips. “No arguing with me, Eve. You go get your car right now missy.”
Eve laughed. “Yes mother,” she kept laughing all the way out the door. Alyssa grabbed her keys from behind the desk and knocked on the security room door again.
“I’m going to move my car so Eve can have my space. I’ll be right back.”
“I’ll move my truck,” he said. “So you can stay where you are.” His voice was so gravely serious that she figured there was no point in wasting time arguing with the man.
“Fine, then you’ll be right back,” she said. “There aren’t any parks close by.”
“I’ll find something.”
“Hey,” she said as he was getting ready to walk out the door. He turned around and waited for her to say something. “Nothing,” she shook her head. She was tempted, and almost ready, to ask him if he wanted to go out to dinner with them tonight. But she couldn’t do that. Dinner would be almost like a date and they were not dating. She just had to keep reminding herself of that fact. Although some part of her mind was already screaming that they were dating. Lunch every day at her place was pretty much a date…although she had justified it by saying it was just two people who worked together eating lunch at the same time in the same place.
He nodded his acceptance of her words before walking out the store. First order of business for her was to call Thomas before Eve got back in there. Thomas was probably the only person who could talk her into staying in the States instead of moving to London. Of course the moment he answered the phone he assumed something was wrong with her. “Brothers,” she mumbled. “I just called to tell you Eve is back. She’s here and she’s going to help me out with the store on Monday.” She listened to him complain about the fact that she hadn’t called him. “Well she didn’t call me either until she got here. Listen; call her Monday at the store. She won’t be able to run away from you then.” She was amazed that he agreed to her plan. When it came to their family