Chapter Six
The Girl Stays
Two days later, early in the morning there was a knock on Daniel’s door.
“What? No packed suitcase and girl waiting at the front door?” Marcus strode inside, looking cheery though slightly apprehensive.
Daniel motioned him into his office where the lanky Marcus stood for awhile, hands in his pockets, staring at the bright open room as if he’d never seen it before. He finally made an abrupt about face.
“So, you going to keep her?” he flippantly broached the subject of the hour fully expecting a negative answer.
“Yes, I am.” Daniel made the announcement with so little inflection in his voice, so matter-of-factly that it took Marcus several seconds to realize that he’d just said the magic words. At least the magic words he wanted to hear.
“Wow! Man, that’s gr
