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When we were back in the four corners of the office, it all came back.
And by then, Levi was out of his meetings.
His office door was open and he was glaring at his computer. I knocked and he didn’t even look up.
“I’ll skip lunch today, Maisie.”
“It’s not your receptionist, unfortunately,” I replied, and his gaze shot up.
“Amy? What are you doing here?”
“I wanted to see how things were going and had lunch with Sally and Maisie.” I walked fully in and shut the door. “Funny. I hear Calvin is being more of a little shit than normal.”
“They told you, didn’t they?”
“Without much prompting, actually. Which is why I’m wondering why my husband didn’t.”
“You knew enough.”
“He’smybrother.”
“And this ismybusiness.”
I blew out a frustrated breath. “I don’t understand. This whole thing is about making Calvin mad. Why are you not telling me the full story of what he’s doing?”
“It’s like I said, you know enough.”
“Obviously, I don’t.”
He let out a sigh, and dimly, I recognized that this might be the first time he was mad at me.
Good. I was mad at him too.
“So your answer was to ask my employees?”
“Let’s get one thing straight. If I know there’s something going on, I’m gonna figure it out.” I pointed at him. “And then I’m gonna figure out why you didn’t tell me. Is it because you’re planning some sort of big revenge you know I won’t like? Something life ruining?”
“Maybe it’s that I don’t want to make everything about your brother, Amy. Did you consider that?”
I blinked. “No, I didn’t actually.”
“You know more than anyone else that he doesn’t stop. You’re dealing with a lot from him already. You don’t need any more.”
He was ... protecting me? Wow. That was new.
And it was sad that it was new.
“It still affects me, though.”
“Not this time. I’m more worried about keeping my employees and going after him for stealing them.”
“You have to have some big plan to get him back.”
“Not really.”
“But you married me as a part of it.”
His eyes cut to me and then he looked back down at his laptop. “Yes . . . I did.”