“If I had to go back and do it all again, I probably wouldn’t have had her go through with it. More of the other way around.”
That last thought was said with a gleam of mischief in her eyes, and my troublemaking Erin was back as if she’d never left. Maybe you can visit my home sometime.”
“I’d like that,” I said. I’d never familiarized myself enough with the game to understand how the scoring worked, but if I had to guess, I’d say she probably had one stroke to my every two, but I couldn’t have told you what that meant in terms of an actual score. That’s huge for any young woman as infatuated as she is.”
“Yeah,” I said, already aware of where she was going with this. Her eyes studied the office’s carpet for the next few moments while I simply watched, trying to find the magic words that would change her mind. She deserves the best.”
“I know,” I said, annoyed. She broke up with me the morning before I found out about my inheritance.”
Astrid laughed even louder as she pressed her pianist’s hands to her slender belly and leaned back in her chair. Maybe I should get her to work for me. I’m not saying you don’t have your faults, but you care… sometimes a little too much. “Sorry about that,
