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“Who is this?” She sat up

“It's ive you another chance The new girl I hired is terrible”

“Wait, are you offering me my job back?” Jessie rubbed her tired eyes in disbelief and confusion

“If you want it, it's yours On one condition, though” Burt drew his words out

“Anything,” Jessie agreed without hesitation

“You control that teain,” Burt stipulated

“I'll be as good as gold, I promise When can I start?” Jessie asked in excitement The job may have driven her crazy at times, and Melanie was aup to her firing she had actually enjoyed working at the diner… for the ood at it, and people always seemed to tip her well

“Two hours ago!” Burt hung up the phone and Jessie smiled to herself in relief His phone call couldn't have come at a better time She had forty bucks left to her na on her kitchen table

She would make the most of this second chance, she prory with Melanie, although she had every right to She had lost a week's worth of valuable wages, but she could cope with that thanks to the tiny bit of extra cash she'd et in her face, everything could work itself out

Jessie quickly showered then slipped into her familiar uniforarbage i fired She had never been so happy to be dressed as a waitress, and checked herself in theher apron into it

She was one second away fro, her hand already on the knob, when a knock on her front door juh the peephole and spied what appeared to be flowers of soreeted by a delivery e bouquet of roses, a polite grin stretching across his young face

“Miss Jessie Drew?” he asked cheerfully

“Yes?” Jessie glanced up and down the corridor as if she were expecting a camera crew to jus like this never happened to her, so it certainly ot the address wrong? Then again, he did know her name Who did she know that would buy her flowers? Surely this couldn't be a peace offering froape for only a led to understand as taking place

“What is this?” she asked, looking suspiciously at the delivery guy

“It's a special delivery,her the beautiful arrangement of red roses

Jessie took the bouquet with a look of bewilderh she knew very little about flowers, she had a feeling this had cost the sender a good deal of money

“Thank you,” Jessie said as she closed the door and walked back into herin the beauty of the flowers, she shook her head and let out a s a sht her eye, and inside she found a card that read: To my mistress Enjoy the flowers, and enjoy your first day back at work!

There didn't have to be a signature for Jessie to knoho they were fro unstoppable Why did John Harwood go through the trouble of getting her job back for her? Deep down, she knew the reason The final look he'd given her when she'd left his office a week ago spoke volumes There had definitely been an attraction between the two different lifestyles, yet the tension had been palpable She'd spent the last week convincing herself that she was crazy, but the flowers revealed that her instincts had been on point

Arriving at the diner, she entered the faht into a sheepish looking Melanie