Game On by Elise Eliot

Author:Elise Eliot [Eliot, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

The next couple of days were tough. None of us could really focus, but we pretended that we were working anyway. There were a few more calls about strange gifts, like the vegan couple that was gifted a large crate full of exotic animal jerky and the former marine biologist-turned-property investor who was sent a delivery of very expensive seafood that was left sitting on his doorstep in the heat, ruining the seafood and making his whole house reek like spoiled fish. They were both extremely offended and told Colton they would never work with him again. Can’t say I blamed them. Of course, Paige feigned ignorance on both counts, even though we both knew she’d spent hours researching them to find the most insulting gift possible.

We all knew there were still a few more calls like that coming and Colton looked exhausted. He started taking long lunch breaks outside the office. In the past, he would ask Paige to schedule someone for a lunch date, but since she could never get the person or the restaurant reservation correct, he rarely asked her to help and would just vanish for hours at a time. When he was in the office, we could hear him on the phone periodically with various people, but it didn’t produce any new listings for the boards.

Sure, the boards were still full with active deals for now, but we didn’t have anything in the pipeline behind it, so I kindly checked in with Colton, “Hey, we need to keep things going. What do you have in the works?”

“The works? Um, well, I’ve been making a lot of videos,” he started rambling, while rifling through papers on his desk as if he was looking for something, when I already knew there was nothing there that led to more business.

“Okay, so let’s put more time into some leads maybe?”

“Yes, Mom.”

“Great, thanks,” I said sarcastically as I turned back to my desk.

That afternoon, Paige’s phone lit up and she answered it on the first ring before patching it through to Colton’s phone. He was actually in the office with us today. “It’s the wife of the guy that bought Regalia,” she said. I saw him cringe as he picked it up.

“This is Colton,” he said. Then, he listened. We heard him say a few “uh-huhs” and a “sure” before ending the call with, “Well, I very much appreciate your business and hope the two of you enjoy the gift.”

He hung up the phone and I bit my lip to keep myself from laughing. What did she do now?

“So, we are sending married couples gift certificates for body waxing now, are we?” he said, without turning around.

“It’s 100 degrees for half the year here, who wants to worry about body hair,” Paige said casually. “BodyZap is the best hair removal spa in the area, so it’s really the gift that keeps on giving.”

“Sure. So, here’s the thing, though, what if we just sent them like a really nice restaurant gift card.

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