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“I know Maggie and I’ve heard of Preston but never had the pleasure of meeting him,” Jericho said.
Preston Del Rio nodded. “Nice to meet you.”
“This is Alisha, my sister, and my attorney, Brian Cooper,” Jericho said.
“This is our attorney, Cecily Meachum,” Maggie said. “It’s nice to see you again, Brian.”
He looked at Brian, unaware he knew Maggie. “Piper hired Maggie to be the art director of an installation in Dallas last summer.”
“Well, now that the introductions are out of the way, let’s get started,” Jack said. “Maggie and Jericho have agreed to go on the dates that the k!smet app sets up for them and want to make sure there is no ‘family drama’ and that nothing happens to reignite the feud, which could ruin business for everyone involved.”
“Any drama won’t be coming from us,” Alisha said.
“Since when?” Cicely asked smartly.
“Who are you again?” Jericho asked. The family attorney shouldn’t be bringing that kind of attitude.
Maggie frowned over at him. “Don’t do that, Jericho. You know that your family has stirred up a lot of—”
“Our family?” Jericho asked.
“That’s right,” Preston said at the same time.
“This is rich,” Alisha said. “Why did we even bother coming here if they are just going to insult us?”
“Everyone, please sit down,” Jack said.
Jericho sat down and looked over at Maggie.
“Do you still want to do this?” he asked her.
“Yes. I won’t bail on Misha.”
“I won’t bail, either. I suggest we go on a set number of dates,” Jericho said. Seeing her in this situation was making him really look at the how difficult dating Maggie would be. Alisha looked ticked and Brian...well, he was cool but Preston didn’t seem happy to be in the same room as them, either.
And while he wanted Maggie, this wasn’t going to be easy. His mom had been right when she’d said trust was going to be very hard to build. He got that and he knew that there was a pretty good chance nothing was going to come of this. At this point he wondered if he should just tell himself he was doing it for Trey.
“That works for me. Also let’s set an end date. Two weeks?”
“That sounds fine,” Alisha said.
“Thanks, sis.”
“No problem. I am here to keep things from getting awkward.”
Maggie laughed. “Preston is, too, but he obviously didn’t understand the assignment.”
“I thought I was here to protect you,” he said.
“From who?” Jericho asked.
“You, Winters.”
“Someone’s going to have to protect you if you don’t shut up,” Alisha said.
“Families,” Jack said. “I think we have enough for the attorneys and me to come to an arrangement.”
“I don’t,” Maggie said.
