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Chapter Five

Their mom and dad were driving Mary Jane down to Albany to catch her connecting flight to Newark airport first thing on Tuesday morning. Mary Jane and Daisy had a big, squeezy goodbye hug, and neither of them said a word about yesterday’s argument, Tucker Reid or the work required on the Spruce Bay grounds.

“Have a great time in Africa!”

“Oh, I’ll try... I will!”

Tucker arrived for the scheduled meeting at just about the time Mary Jane would be boarding her aircraft, and since their mom and dad were stopping for lunch in Saratoga on their way home, he would be long gone by the time they got back.

Possibly a good thing.

Mom and Dad were bowing out of the family business and had decided on South Carolina, “so we don’t keep interfering with what you girls want to do with the place,” but they hadn’t made the move yet, and they did interfere. A lot. With profuse apologies every single time.

Daisy didn’t want Tucker caught in the middle of family stuff. After all, he hadn’t been a part of the Cherry family for a long time.

At two minutes before ten, she heard the metallic slam of a heavy vehicle door and peeked out the office window to see a juggernaut of a pickup truck parked out front, with the blue-and-green Reid Landscaping logo emblazoned on the side. She neatened the sheaf of printouts and brochures she’d taken from Jackie at the landscaping office yesterday, and slid her own hand-written notes into the folder, as well.

She liked having a folder, and notes. They were practical and impersonal and gave emphasis to the working nature of this relationship. They were a reminder of how she used to clutch a pile of menus at Niche, after her professional and personal relationship with head chef and owner Michael Drake had gone downhill.