Chapter Seventeen
After lunch the next day, the girls sat on the floor in Eli’s office, coloring, waiting for Eli to return.
“Hey, girls.”
Kinley and Shelby turned toward the door to see the two men who had been trying to steal their work.
They glanced at each other.
“Hey, what do you guys need?” Shelby asked. She wasn’t too worried about being around them because Sam was sitting on the sofa, but the guys couldn’t see him. Sam looked up at them and nodded.
“You remember our names?”
The girls shook their heads.
“I’m Tim, and he’s Scott. We just wondered if you wanted to go to lunch?”
Shelby shook her head. “No. But thank you.” She could see Scott get angry and try to hide it.
“How about we sit in the lounge and talk?” Tim asked.
“No, our daddies won’t like it,” Kinley said.
“We heard you call the older guys that, but they’re not your real dads, right?”
Shelby shook her head. “No. What business of it is yours?”
Tim raised his hands. “We don’t mean to piss you off. We just wanted to run some things by you. Do you at least have a minute?”
“Sure, but we have to stay here,” Shelby told them.
“We can’t go somewhere we can all sit?” Scott asked.
“You can come and sit on the floor with us,” Kinley said.
The guys glanced at each other and then out the door.
“When will your daddies be back?”
Kinley shrugged. “We don’t know. They’re in a meeting.”
Tim smiled. “Okay. We’ll stand here. We don’t have a lot of time.”
Shelby waited for them to talk. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Sam texting.
“So, we wanted to know why you scrapped the first template you were building.”
“It wasn’t going to work,” Shelby said.
“But Tim and I went over what we remembered, and it looked good to us.”
Kinley went on to tell them how it wouldn’t work, and Shelby knew it was all made up.
“But that’s just it,” Tim said. “We think it would, but we’d like to go over the possibilities with you and see what you think.”
“I’m sorry, but you’ll have to ask our daddies,” Kinley said.
Shelby almost smiled at how frustrated they were getting. “Guys, we went over it several times, and we know it won’t work. How could you have remembered everything we did? But the one we started after that has a lot of possibilities, we think.”