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She hoped so but didn’t voice that. For now she and her best friend were having big fattening sundaes.
And for once she’d enjoy it as her dinner.
8
Power Of Success
“What are you still doing here?” Daisy asked Rose six weeks later when she walked into the back room that served as the workshop for the two of them.
Zane had cut into the break room a year ago to give Rose double the space so that Daisy could have an area to work and Rose would not to lose what she’d had. The two of them didn’t even have to share equipment much anymore since the business had grown so much with the jewelry.
The manufacturing plant did a lot of less expensive high volume pieces. But the wholesale orders for the more expensive line that Rose created before Daisy was hired were made by the two of them most times. Or at least finished by them depending on the design.
Not to mention they did all the work for the pieces in the jewelry store and custom designs which were growing like crazy too.
“I’m just finishing up this piece,” Rose said. “I came in late.”
“You can come in anytime you want,” she said. “You’re the boss.”
Rose frowned. In the last trimester of her pregnancy, Rose was just struggling but didn’t want anyone to know. Daisy could always tell though when Rose was going to get sick and tried to fight it back. Or when she had to get up and move because her body hurt.
“Yeah, I know. But work needs to be completed.”
“That is what I’m here for,” she said. “Or don’t you think you can trust me to get it done?”
She put a pout on her face that she’d mastered from Poppy. It was what the two older sisters taught her to do so they could convince Rose to go home half the time.
Rose all but growled. “I know what you’re doing. I didn’t figure it out months ago, but I’ve got it now.”
She laughed. “What’s that?”
“Guilt. You don’t lack confidence. You know what you’re doing and are doing a great job. Better than I thought when I hired you.”
“What?” she asked. Nowthathurt.
“Shit,” Rose said. “That came out completely wrong. This kid is messing with my hormones and my tongue. I hope he figures it out before he meets a woman in twenty or so years.”
She grinned this time. “I’ll let you get away with blaming the baby, but I’d like you to explain what you said.”
Rose sighed. “Listen, Daisy. You know how hard it’s been for us to let go of our divisions in the business.”
“I do know,” she said.
The business had been growing so much and more and more of the work was done at the manufacturing plant. Even Poppy spent more time designing and doing custom orders rather than filling orders. Lily hardly did anything with products other than oversee the business and she was struggling to keep up.
Rose was the only one that actually had her hands on products daily and she knew that wouldn’t change. Not with the talent and craft that Rose had.
“I fought back getting any assistant, and the truth is, when I hired you, I just figured you’d be doing repairs and a lot of these wholesale orders, then filling in at the shop as needed.”
“I do all those things,” she said, grinning.
“But you’ve got great ideas. You’ve come up with two new designs and I’ve been thrilled. They are selling like crazy. I’m more worried you’re going to want to branch out on your own and I’m going to lose you. When I hired you that thought never occurred to me.”
It might have been the nicest thing that Rose could have said to her.
Here she was feeling a little alone in life and not letting anyone know.
Her best friend was going strong with a hot trooper and home less and less.
