She enjoyed the quiet while she cleaned the kitchen. At the guest counter, she reviewed the lists of what needed to be done and items picked up in town. There was nothing she could do today, so she took out her headset and went into her office. Carli had left her door open upstairs, and Fiona could hear her voice, but not what was said. She suspected Carli wasn’t sleeping well, whether because Ethan was gone or how far along she was in her pregnancy she didn’t know, but Carli had been napping in the afternoons.
In her office, she straightened already organized files and papers. Turning to file them, she considered what Carli had said about being lucky in hiring employees. Fingering the tabs of the file folders, she pulled out the one that held Tom’s application, and read it over. She look
