Page 79 of Fierce-Jax

He’d only met them that once, but it went well and Dillion said her father had said little, which meant he was okay with things...for now.

Dillion had laughed when she’d added that part, but he understood and didn’t take offense.

She and her father butted heads a lot and anytime father and daughter weren’t bickering it was a nice day in the Patrick household per his girlfriend.

“I think the holiday put them behind,” Roni said. “Or that was their excuse. It was funny watching them both almost jumping around my office and one holding the other back.”

He snorted. “I’m not complaining. What did you say?”

“I told them you had been on a date and it went well. They tried to ask if it was more than one and I told them it’s all they were getting out of me.”

“Thanks,” he said. “You know I’m not big on over-sharing parts of my life.”

He was walking to his car while he was talking to her. Several people were waving to him at the same time and he was nodding his head.

Normally he’d be talking to others in the parking lot after a meeting and exchanging opinions on the topics that were discussed, but the text from his sister saying she’d had two visitors this morning was enough for him to bypass that and put work second for a change.

“I know,” Roni said. “I had you covered, but you have to give them something or they spin even more.”

“I’d rather they go to you than come to my office again. I’m sure Dillion feels the same way. People are going to get suspicious if I keep getting visits from them.”

At least those who might know what the Fierces do. Which thankfully weren’t a lot, though Tori had brought it up the other day.

Just joking since she was going through it now with her boyfriend, Hyde, whom she’d been set up with.

“When are you going to have it be more out in the open?” Roni asked. “I know you. You won’t announce it by any means, but Dillion is pretty close to her staff, you’d said. And you two do work in the same building. You see each other all the time. Unless you’re avoiding that for now.”

“We aren’t avoiding it, but not running to the other’s office to stop in either. She doesn’t have much free time and can’t just walk away like I might be able to.”

Not that he had much free time either.

Though as he climbed into his car right now, he wished there was a way he could have lunch with her.

Something they didn’t get because she took little time off between patients.

Maybe thirty minutes, and if she was running behind, only went to eat at her desk.

“But you can see each other in the mornings if it works out,” Roni said.

“It does a few times a week,” he said. “At least once.”

Not as often lately. It’d have to be perfect timing to always pull in the same time and now that he was dating Dillion, he was sure the flirtation gods weren’t working in their favor for those quick visits.

“Better than nothing,” Roni said. “But I understand too. I got to see Trent walking by my office pretty much daily. It was nice back then.”

“And you still see him,” he said. His phone buzzed in his hand and he looked down to see Dillion texting him. “Hey, I’ve got to run.”

“No problem. I wanted to give you a heads up.”

“Thanks,” he said. He got to his car and climbed in before he called Dillion. She never sent him messages during the day. Or at least one asking if he was busy.

“Hi,” Dillion said on the first ring. “I didn’t think you’d call me.”

“Is everything okay?” he asked. “You hardly ever text me during the day and if you do you never ask if I’m busy.”

She was the busy one. Most dermatologists were only open three or four days a week. Her practice went from two full-timedoctors down to her and she was open five days rather than the four days before she owned it to accommodate the existing patients.

She said she hired another PA to see patients so maybe it was working out.

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