AMELIA
Wednesday evening, after I got off from work that day, I stood beside Mom, both of us facing the building she had been talking about since yesterday.
"This is the one," she said. "I’ve had my eye on it for a while now. It's a perfect size for the expansion."
I smiled at her. "It’s really good, Mom. I can already picture it."
She turned to me, "When I mentioned it to Adrian’s assistant on Monday, he got back to me almost immediately. He said that Adrian is already looking into buying the place outright."
I nodded slowly. "That's nice."
Mom suddenly stopped , then turned to face me fully, her expression shifting from excited to that sharp, mother-knows-something look I’d grown up with. "Did you put him up to this, Amelia?"
I shook my head quickly. "No. I only mentioned once th
