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“Your idea was fresh, innovative, and helped us find a new path. I’ll be forever grateful. I was too pissed to look at it objectively. We all were.”

“So, you’re not selling?”

“Nope. Next week I’ll put my team on it, and when I meet with Greg, tell him to reject the offer.”

“Will he be pissed?”

I laughed. “No. He gets paid no matter what I do. He has no vested interest in the land, either way, so he won’t care. He’ll send me a sizable bill for his time, and we’ll move onto the next project.”

Her fingers smoothed over the edge of the cushion. “Why isn’t he a part of your crowd?”

“My crowd?”

“Your business. You have Aiden and Maddox. I’m surprised he isn’t part of the company. You must need a lot of legal advice.”

“We have a legal consultant in the company. Greg had always been a lone wolf—never wanted to be a partner in any company, even right out of school. He went at it alone and earned his reputation. He has never expressed any desire to be anything other than what he is, and the one