Total pages in book: 94
Estimated words: 91288 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 456(@200wpm)___ 365(@250wpm)___ 304(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 91288 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 456(@200wpm)___ 365(@250wpm)___ 304(@300wpm)
“I’m family.”
“So? We all have our secrets. Even from family.”
Dayne cocked an eyebrow. “But why does he feel the need to hide it from us?”
“Why don’t you ask yourself that,” Ford suggested.
Dayne shrugged. “I’d be the last person to judge him. Tease, yes. Judge, no.”
“Maybe he doesn’t want anyone riding his ass about what he does.”
“Or who he does,” Dani added in a murmur.
“So, you’re riding his ass?” Dayne wore an asshole grin when he turned to Dylan. “I didn’t take you for a bottom, brother.”
“He’s not,” Ford responded quickly, cutting off Dylan’s answer.
“I didn’t take you for one, either.”
Ford’s chin rose and he looked squarely in Dayne’s eyes. “I’m not.”
“Ah. Got it. You’re sharing Erin but not each other.”
“Why are you so determined to know our dynamics?” Erin’s irritation at Dayne was beginning to show.
“He only wants that info so he can needle me,” Dylan answered for his brother.
Dayne tipped his head to the side and shot him another grin. “I try to find any excuse.”
“We know,” Danica said next.
“You aren’t any better,” Dylan told his sister.
“We’re siblings. It’s what siblings do.”
Erin clapped her hands together and exclaimed, “Boy, am I starving!”
Danica laughed softly and Dayne’s grin widened.
“Anyway, I can’t wait to hear what customer service suggestions you came up with, Erin.” Dayne turned back to Dylan. “Should Dani and I expect a summary email or a face-to-face meeting?”
When the timer on the oven beeped, it took everything Dylan had not to jump out of his skin. Dani got up and headed over to check on the leftovers, saying, “Maybe we should just hire her for real. Our PR company does the marketing but doesn’t deal with that aspect.”
“I think that’s a great idea, sis,” Dayne said.
“I have a job,” Erin murmured.
“We’ll pay you better,” Dayne told her.
We will?
“You don’t know what my salary is.”
“Dani’s right,” Dylan’s twin said. “We could use someone who’s knowledgeable in that department.”
“I have a job,” Erin repeated, her eyes now burning a hole into the side of Dylan’s face.
“Do you like it?” Dayne asked.
“It’s…” She grimaced. “It’s dealing with the public, so honestly, it’s exhausting some days.”
“Worldwide?”
Erin nodded. “Yes.”
“Here you would only be dealing with our current or potential guests. You’d be smoothing things over if there are issues. Handling… Well, if you’ve been in customer service for a while, you know what you’d be handling. I don’t have to tell you.”
She asked Dayne, “Will the customer always be right even when they are very, very wrong?”
“Absolutely not.”
“Will I have to sit there and take abuse from a disgruntled guest?”
“No. We’ll ask you to smooth things over as best as possible but the second someone comes at you being abusive, language or otherwise, you’ll have every right to shut them down or pass them on to me or Dylan.”
She sat up straighter. “Hold on. Is this a serious job offer?”
“Sure.”
Funny how Dayne hadn’t cleared this with Dylan first. But then he hadn’t cared about Dylan’s opinion when he hired Ford, especially when he knew the contractor had been seeing Erin.
“What are the benefits?”
Was she seriously thinking about working for the resort? Did what Dylan thought was a joke become a serious offer? Did he even have a say in this?
“Can we discuss this tomorrow, instead?” Dylan asked his twin.
“The three main players of this ranch are all here right now,” Dayne reminded him. “Do you have a problem hiring her?”
What the hell. Dayne was purposely putting him on the spot and Dylan would look like an asshole if he said yes.
It wasn’t that he didn’t think she’d be capable—despite having no firsthand knowledge of her skills in that respect—it was the fact he’d be having an intimate relationship with two of his own employees. Though, their employee handbook didn’t prohibit any kind of relationship.
But then, their employee handbook was pretty damn thin. Basically, the “rules” were: show up for work on time, do the work you were assigned and treat each other, as well as guests, with respect.
Besides a customer service specialist, which would most likely be Erin’s title if they went forward on this, they really should hire someone to be a human resources specialist, too, since their employee roster was growing. He and Dayne had been handling the HR stuff on their own and neither were experts. In fact, they’d been winging it. And when it came to benefits, payroll and the rest, it could be overwhelming. He didn’t want anything slipping through the cracks that might cause issues with the government. Or cause lawsuits.
Owning a business and having employees was not easy.
Neither was having two nosey siblings who were smartasses.
Dylan tracked Dani as she returned to the table wearing oven mitts and carrying the large aluminum pan. His stomach growled in response.
“You didn’t answer,” pulled Dylan’s attention back to his brother.