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“You’re both too good to o, when he’d volunteered to help h rise
Jan whispered, “I’ve gotnow”
He knew she was talking about the proot to run”
“Let ”
He greeted other co-workers but kept h of either Still, he liked to acknowledge the friendly people he worked with every day
“Morning Joe,” he said to thea full mail cart down the hallway
“Morning” A few years younger than Wes, Joe attended night school He liked to say that he orking his way up through the coround floor “I left those files you put a rush on in your office”
“Thank you You’re a lifesaver”
Joe s the loaded mail cart in the opposite direction
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Wes stepped into his office and fished his phone out of his pocket It was his mother He really didn’t have tiet to Mr Suet back to the conference room in—he checked his watch—ten minutes
It wasn’t like hisimportant He pressed a button and held the phone to his ear “Hey Mo okay?”
“Of course, it is Is that any way to greet your mother?”
He e of his chair His hands moved rapidly over the keyboard as he entered his password “Sorry It’s just that you don’t nor business hours”
“I did this , because I need to discuss some business with you”
His finger struck the wrong key and the printer started spitting out five copies of the necessary file He tried to stop it, but the computer froze With a frustrated wave of his hand, he let the printer finish producing all five copies Fortunately, the report was only three pages long
“What business?” he asked
“Do you remember Bayberry?”
“Bayberry the candle? Or the town in Vermont?”
“The small town”
He checked the time He was down to nine minutes “Of course, I remember We lived there briefly when I was, ah, fifteen”
He envisioned his ht You have a goodto my friend there Do you remember Penney Taylor?”
He reirl in school with the saest crush on her They’d lived in Bayberry less than a year, however, when his father had announced that they had to move because he’d landed a new job Wes hadn’t taken it well He’d intended to ask the girl to the Candlelight Dance on Christht of her in years
“Sorry Mom, but I don’t know your friend”