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Devin looked kind of embarrassed about it, if secretly pleased.
Good. He deserved someone looking out for him.
Zoe dropped into the chair her mother had set up on the other side of Arthur’s bed. As she did, Arthur struggled to sit up. She shook her head at him. “Relax.”
“Your mother wouldn’t let me have my phone.”
“Nor should she have.”
“I have to call Sherry.” He scrubbed a hand across his forehead. “Ten people had appointments at Harvest Home today. Supper service—”
Zoe grabbed his hand and held on tight. “Is handled.”
“The key—”
“Sherry already came by to pick up mine.”
“Deliveries—”
“Have been postponed until tomorrow. All today’s pickups, too.”
“But—”
“Uncle Arthur.” She gripped his hand in both of hers. “I’ve got it.”
She sucked in a deep breath. Instinctively, she glanced up at Devin, but he just stood there, silently supportive. Because he was the awesomest dude in the world, and she was so freaking glad to have him at her side.
“Zoe…” Uncle Arthur started.
“Trust me.” That’s what she’d been asking everyone in her life to do since she graduated.
She could make her own decisions about who she wanted to date.
And about what she wanted to do with her life.
“I’ve been doing a lot of thinking.” She stopped her uncle before he could interrupt again. “Not just today, but for the past few months. About my future.”
That finally got him to let her speak. His mouth drew down into a frown, but she had his attention.
“You’ve been doing too much.”
He shook his head, but she looked pointedly at the hospital bed he was all but strapped into.
“You do too much,” she insisted again, “because you care too much. You take care of everyone all the time. Well, it’s time we all took care of you.” She cleared her throat. “It’s time I did.”
“Zhaohui?”
“I’m taking over Harvest Home.” She kept going, putting it all out there before he could try to contradict her. “You’ll still be in charge, obviously. It’s your baby. But from now on, the day-to-day operations are on me.”
“But your job—”
“Will be fine.” She’d already talked to Clay about adjusting her schedule. It wouldn’t be a problem. And she had some other ideas she was going to run past him, too.
Arthur started again. “Your jobsearch. You had all those leads in Atlanta, Charlotte—”
Zoe shook her head. “My job search is over.”
“But—”
