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He watched me for a beat and something happened to his expression. His face became hard, but the look in his green eyes went soft.
I watched, fascinated, and I felt the change throughout my entire system.
“Get that out of your head and focus. This is voluntary overtime. For all of us.”
I stared, trying to process his words, but he didn’t give me a chance.
He got closer and his voice dropped to a whisper.
“Babe, watching you these past months has been like watching a flower bloom. Don’t disappoint us.”
Then he was gone.
I stood and stared in the space he’d been occupying.
“Um…hello?” Tod called to me, drawing out the “hello.”
I snapped to and stared at them all. They were all looking at me.
“Mace was just here,” I said.
“He was?” Indy asked looking around.
I couldn’t believe they hadn’t seen him, but I ignored that as there were slightly more pressing things at hand.
I told them all what he said.
They all continued to stare at me.
“We gotta go,” I decided.
They looked at each other.
“We ain’t gonna go, sugar. He’s right, finish what you start,” Daisy said.
Lottie was watching me, then a slow smile spread on her face. “I couldn’t put my finger on it, but it’s true. Youarea flower. I thought it was the hair, but it isn’t the hair, it’syou.”
My sister.
“Pu-lease,” I muttered and rolled my eyes.
She just nodded, looking all happy in the face of certain danger.
My eyes moved to Indy. “What the hell did he mean, watching me these past months has been like watching a flower bloom? Who talks like that? And, anyway, he barely comes into Fortnum’s.”
“Um, I kinda forgot to tell you.” Indy was shifting uncomfortably and it worried me.
“What?” I prompted.
“Lee has surveillance on Fortnum’s,” she began. “Cameras and bugs, twenty-four, seven. He put it in when I was going through my drama and never took it out. The boys at the office watch for security purposes and, um…for kicks.”
I stared at her.
“You’re joking,” I breathed, at the same time silently asking God to make Indy tell me she was joking.
She shook her head.
I knew it was selfish, but I really wished God would pay more attention to me.
