Chapter 14
Thursday, I glanced up from a pile of tracking data charts on my desk to find Mallory in my office doorway. “Well, well, well,” she said. “I see someone’s back in the office, bright and early, as usual. But a day later than expected, I might also add. Gee, I wonder why?”
Her pretty face bore the Cheshire-cat grin I had anticipated, one that typically irked me. This morning, however, it amused me, but I did my best not to let it show. “Yes, I wonder…”
She hastily settled her purse on her workstation counter, then raced across my threshold and stood before me. The grin on her face widened. “So, how was Harrisburg? Did it prove…productive? To your liking? Satisfactory in every single delicious way?”
“Great news!”
“Really? Tell me everything.” She looked like a spellbound child
