“Not as far as I know. Lucy met him at the cookout, too, and they’ve gone out a few times. Paula told me that she gave him Lucy’s number when they were chatting, and he expressed interest.”

“Oh, I didn’t realize that. Are they still dating?” Andrea didn’t want to screw things up for Lucy if she was interested in Ben. She’d never had an issue with Lucy.

“I haven’t heard otherwise.” Hallie looked at her sister carefully. “You didn’t seem concerned when you thought he was dating Paula. Is it different now that you know it’s Lucy?”

Andrea sighed. “Yes. Lucy didn’t steal my job.” Both her sister and aunt looked at her with disapproval.

“That’s not how I heard it went,” her aunt finally said.

“Well. You haven’t been around until recently. I still think Paula manipulated Grandfather into making this switch.”

“You couldn’t be more wrong,” Hallie said. “Paula was even more shocked than you were. She never asked for this. Never wanted it.”

“That didn’t stop her from taking it, though, did it?” For the first time, though, Andrea felt a little niggling of doubt. Was she being too hard on her cousin?

“Okay, your father’s home, come fix your plates,” her mother called from the kitchen.

Chapter 25

Andrea had a blast playing golf with Ben the next day. It was just the two of them, so they weren’t slowing down the foursome behind them and Ben was able to give her lots of pointers as they played.

“I can see why people get addicted to this game,” she said after an unusually good shot.

Ben grinned. “It is fun. It can be frustrating at times, though. It’s so much a mental game and sometimes you’re in the zone and other times, not so much.”

He made her laugh as they played. She liked his sense of humor and carefree attitude. When they finished, he suggested getting a bite to eat at the club. Because it was a Monday night, it wasn’t as busy as usual, so the outside area wasn’t crowded at all. They sat at the bar and ordered a round of drinks and a few appetizers to share. Neither one of them felt like a big meal.

Several times people stopped by to say hello and Andrea was impressed that he seemed to know so many people.

“You’re like the mayor here,” she teased him.

He grinned. “It’s really because of my parents. They were one of the first members and a lot of the people I know here, I know through them and from being in Manhattan. There’s a lot of us that go back and forth. Lots of families like mine where the husband is in the city during the week and flies to Nantucket on the weekends.”

“Does your mother work?”