The store can wait, he thinks. There's still a week before he plans on opening and that's plenty of time to do what needs to be done, so he shakes his head and gives her a smile. "I have time for a drink." He doesn't know her all that well, but there's something about the way she asks that makes him think she might need it.

After ten years with Clary and Jocelyn, he's gotten fairly good at reading women, reading most people in general, and there's no reason for him not to keep Mindy company for a little while.