Calamity Rayne II_Back Again by Lydia Michaels

Author:Lydia Michaels [Michaels, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

What the fugu looking at?

That night I joined Remington for dinner. I had expected to eat at the house, but now that he was walking around the man didn’t idle long. It was nice to have an evening just the two of us.

He took me to a nice restaurant looking over the ocean. Remington was fancy business and did things with old-school class. I realized this when he took the liberty of ordering for both of us. “We’ll start with two dry martinis and the fugu.”

The waiter nodded and left. I googled fugu. “Um, we’re eating a puffer fish?” All I could think of was the cast from Finding Nemo.

“It’s a delicacy.”

“It says here one drop of poison could kill an adult. Holy shit, a hundred people die a year from eating fugu. Are you trying to kill me?” People kept trying to hurt me today.

“Put your phone away, Meyers.”

I slid my phone into my bag, unsure if I was brave enough to risk my life for food. “So…”

Remington eyed me and frowned. “You’ve lost weight.”

“I’ve been under some stress.”

“Understandable, but your friend’s recovering.”

“Speaking of my friends, could you please not hit on them?”

He smirked. “I don’t think she’s interested in a man my age.”

“You’re right. So stop.”

The waiter delivered our drinks and my eyes watered as I took a sip. “Wow, that’s one dry martini.”

Remington sipped his without issue. “Hale doesn’t want you to work for me.”

“Hale isn’t the boss of me.”

“Are you sure?”

My lips twisted. I wasn’t sure who was running the Calamity Rayne Show these days. Elle used to be my director, but then I started taking orders from Remington until Elle got hurt. Now, we were all jumbled together and Hale wanted to call the shots, but I sort of wanted to call them myself, only not really by myself. Gah! I had no clue what I wanted.

“Do you think I made a mistake moving in with him?”

“Yes.”

Well, that was blunt. “Why?”

“Because Hale has a lot on his plate right now and so do you.”

“Not really. I mean, there’s Elle, but other than that—”

“Exactly what I’m talking about, Meyers. There should be something other than your friend’s prognosis directing your life. You’re supposed to be looking at college courses.”

“Remington, you know that isn’t happening.”

“I know no such thing. You made a deal with me and I expect you to uphold your end of the bargain.”

The whole college thing happened when he refused to meet his granddaughter. Once he met her, I was over our bargain. Apparently, he wasn’t. “I have no interest in a business major.”

“Then major in something else.”

I arched a brow and laughed. “So you’d be okay with me choosing something like art or philosophy.”

“I would.” He took another sip of his martini. “The point is to get you moving in some sort of direction. Your life is stagnant.”

“I haven’t told Hale you offered to pay for me to go back to school.”

“It doesn’t concern him.”

I rolled my eyes. “This is why he gets weird about me working for you.

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