Page 65 of The Devil In Denim
“I am. He wanted to sell the Saints, not make me leave them. Nobody forced him into it, so there are really no sides. He’s happy I’m helping out.”
“What exactly are you doing?”
“At the moment, trying to watch a football game,” Maggie said pointedly. Ramona was meant to be dishing gossip, not trying to dig it out of her. But at least out here, she was away from Alex.
“So the dishy Mr. Winters wasn’t an incentive to stay on?”
“Working with someone with such great business credentials was an incentive, definitely,” Maggie said. “I don’t tend to base my career decisions on good looks.”
“So there’s nothing between you two?”
Maggie shook her head. “We’re just colleagues.”
“And yet here he is taking you to the play-offs in veeerry expensive seats.”
“He got the seats for free. And Lucas or Mal couldn’t come, so he asked me. No big deal.”
“Never thought you were that big a football fan.”
“Well, you know me. I like my men with a little less armor. But I don’t mind football when there’s no baseball.”
“So you’re just showing a united front for the press?”
Ramona was quick, Maggie had to grant her that. “There’s no show. We have a united front. We both want this sale to be approved and for the Saints to keep going from strength to strength so we can keep paying your clients.” She snapped her purse shut. “I’d think you’d want that too.”
“I want my clients to go where they get the best deal.”
“Best deals aren’t only about the money, you know that. We treat our players well. They like playing for the Saints. Just ask Brett.”
“You don’t have to tell me that. I’ve been trying to get him to jump ship for two years.”
Maggie knew that much. Hana told her about Brett’s other offers every time he got one.
“What can I say? New York is pretty hard to give up.”
“Hana didn’t grow up here, maybe she wants to be closer to her family.”
“I think being away from her family is one of her favorite things about New York.” Hana’s mom made Hana look positively laid-back. Maggie knew Hana preferred living where there were no surprise family visits. “But who knows, maybe you’ll get lucky and Brett will decide he wants a change of scenery.” Not while Hana was living and breathing, but it wouldn’t hurt Ramona to think she had some chance of changing his mind, if only to get her to drop the subject.
And if she couldn’t get her to drop the subject, she’d just change it altogether. “Did you come here with someone?” Maggie asked as she opened the door to the bathroom and held it for Ramona.
Ramona nodded. “Yes. Will Sutter.”
Crap. It seemed Ramona and Will were more than just acquaintances. Maggie had hoped they’d just run into each other here, not that they’d actually come to the game together. What was Ramona doing hanging out with Will Sutter?
“You two seem to be getting along,” she said neutrally.
“Yes,” Ramona said. “And here he is now.”
Maggie kept the grimace off her face as she turned to see Will striding down the hall toward them.
“I thought I’d have to send out a search party,” he said when he reached Ramona’s side.
“Sorry, I got sidetracked. Look who I found.”
Maggie smiled politely at Will as he nodded. “Will. It’s nice to see you again.”
“I was sorry to hear about your dad,” she added, taking Will’s hand to shake when he offered his. She couldn’t remember if she’d mentioned his dad at the party.
