“Careful, careful. Don’t let it touch the wall. The trim isn’t quite dry yet.” Under normal circumstances, Kennedy would have waited until tomorrow, but there simply wasn’t time. She bit her lip as Xander muscled the bed back another few inches. “There! That’s it!” She clapped her hands and did a little happy dance, complete with a hip bump for Ari.
The corner of Xander’s mouth turned up at that. “Anything else?”
He was trying to cover up his mood, but Kennedy knew him and knew that he was struggling with whatever had happened with his father.
“It still needs to be dressed and staged, but I so don’t have time to do all that before I go to work.” She wished she were off work entirely for the night so she could finish and so they could finally talk about his dad and about the email she’d
