Chapter 23

“I want you too.”

“Are you listening, hermano?”

Xavier jerked his head up. “What?”

Ramon eyed him across the meeting table in his office ,”where is your head today?”

Xavier sat forward pushed aside the plate at his elbow and grabbed his painful stop he and Ramon had decided on a working lunch in the office rather than in a restaurant where discussing sensitive matters might be difficult.

Raman launched in a chair on the other side of the table. He had rolled up his shirt sleeves removed his tie and loosened his collar. Xavier supposed he should be grateful to his brother had it yet removed his shoes and propped his feet on the table.

“First you forget our lunch,” Ramon accused ,”and now you seem incapable of concentrating more than just 5 minutes at a time.”

Xavier scowled. “My concentration is fine.” Liar. “What else have you heard about Lloyd anderson?”

“Nothing more than what I told you yesterday. He and Reynolds were spotted having lunch together last week in New York. And then An