My eyes grow a little bigger. “Dad, I’ll be in your office in less than five minutes.” I look at my wristwatch as I enter the elevator.
Dad hangs up the phone call. He can’t put her in that position. She just graduated with less experience. She may be my best friend, will be on my team, under my wings, but I need someone who is more experienced than her.
Oh, is that really what you want, or you want her all to yourself?
“Is everything okay?”
I blink off the jumbled thoughts in my head. She’s still carrying a bag of our muffins while I have our coffee.
“Yeah. Everything is alright, beautiful.”
“Stop saying like that every time we are in the elevator.”
“Do you think I will only say that if we are in the elevator, Trinity?”
“Answer that, Bash,” she snaps.
“You know that was not the f
