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Prologue
“Thank you for making the trip here. I know it’s a few hours away,” Rose Bloom said to Daisy Jones.
She was trying not to wipe her hands on her pants, as she knew they were dripping wet with nerves. There was so much riding on this interview.
“Not a problem,” Daisy said. “I was thrilled to get your call earlier in the week that you wanted me to come in for a second interview. And I appreciate you doing the first one remotely.”
When she’d applied for this position a few weeks ago she knew it was a shot in the dark she’d get a call, living hours away, but she’d been picking up and moving most of her life.
And she was sick of doing it. She knew she had to find that one place where she wanted to stay. Something told her this might be the spot.
Or she was damn well hoping it was.
“Poppy and Lily will be here soon. Lily is on a call and Poppy is dealing with something in the store.”
Daisy knew the three sisters owned Blossoms and that the jewelry part of the business was the last to be added on and the smallest right now. Rose had explained all of that in the first interview.
“That’s fine,” she said. “I’ve got all day. Being self-employed I can come and go when I need to.”
“And you’re okay closing down your online store if you are hired here?” Rose asked.
She knew that was going to be a condition even before she started the first interview.
“I have no problem at all. The thing is, I’m creative. I enjoy working with my hands and wasn’t able to do that at the store and decided to do it on the side.” It’s not like she was making that much money in the jewelry store and it was taking time away from when she could make her own products to sell online.
There was a knock at the door and it opened with Rose’s sisters coming in. Having been an only child, she already saw the bond these three shared just by the way they looked at each other.
“Thanks for taking time out of the day for this,” Rose said to the sisters. “Lily and Poppy, this is Daisy. Sorry, this is just funny to me. Daisy, not everyone has a flower name in our company, but there are three others.”
“Really?” Daisy asked, grinning while she shook hands with Rose’s sisters. Poppy was very stylish; Lily was too. Rose seemed more basic like Daisy was dressed today and she already knew they’d get along great. “Can I ask what their names are?”
“Jasmine and Violet work in the flower shop full time,” Lily said. “And in our greenhouses that are on my personal property. We just hired Heather who has a science background. She has an office here but will be working in a lab area at the greenhouses too.”
“I find this so fascinating,” Daisy said. “I understand that you all have flower names and it’s how the business started, but the odd chance of hiring more…”
“I like to think it is fate,” Poppy said. This sister was almost bouncing in her seat with excitement. Poppy had to be the fun one of the bunch.
“Maybe it will be fate for me too,” Daisy said. She hoped she wasn’t pushing it by saying that, but in her gut, she just wanted to be honest.
“Tell us about yourself,” Poppy said.
Here they went, she thought. Time to do the best she could and hope she came out on top for once.
“I was just explaining to Rose that I’ve always been creative. I loved working in the jewelry store and doing sales, but it didn’t give me the creativity to make anything and I missed it. I grew up with a single mother and we didn’t have much. Most things I had to learn to make myself if I wanted them. Money wasn’t always flowing and I like pretty things.”
Poppy smiled and looked at her two sisters. “We know something about that.”
“That is how I started with the candles and soaps,” Lily said. “Those were things that we didn’t have the money to buy, but I loved how they smelled. We had all sorts of flowers here to use too.”
“I’ve read your story,” Daisy said. “I found it intriguing. I love learning new things. I’m not afraid of hard work. I did go to college for two years because my mother wanted me to. I’ve got a general business degree and was a shift manager at the jewelry store, but it was a chain and things were done their way. There was no freedom.”
She didn’t want to think of those two years she struggled in school. She hated every minute of it, but she wanted to make her mother proud who’d never gotten a chance for a college education.
“We aren’t a jewelry store here,” Rose said. “We have a section in our store for jewelry, but I don’t see me ever wanting my own store.”
“That’s fine,” she said. “I wasn’t looking to work in a store full time, but if you need me to ever fill in there, I’d do it. For the whole store. Again, I just love everything you stand for. If you need me at the plant, I’d work there too. I’m all for teamwork and doing what needs to be done to get to where the business can thrive to its fullest.”
The minute she said she wasn’t looking to work in a store she wished she could have rewound her words and hoped the rest of her explanation didn’t come off as desperation.
