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“Didn’t take her near as long to figure out how to Photoshop twenty years off her selfies,” Maybelle added drily, pulling a snowflake out and putting it in the “needs work” stack “One click of a button and wrinkles be gone! Of course, so is her nose since it takes so ”

Rosie’s mouth dropped open and she tossed an ornament at Maybelle, who just chuckled and added it to her “needs work” pile

“I do not blur reat indignation, then smiled sweetly as she added, “I understand how you couldas the one on your face”

Staring at theht any of you could be trusted with advanced technology”

Poor Bodie He had no clue what he’d gotten hireed to work at Hamilton House

“His references checked out and I hired him”

From the moment she’d watched him with Harry, she’d liked him There was an inherent honesty about Bodie Yes, he had a dark cloud hanging over his head that said back off, but just as visible was a sense of honor and morals She’d barely met him, and yet she trusted him

“Aren’t you curious what the sheriff found out?” Maybelle te Sarah didn’t

“You already tolda little guilty that they’d essentially done a background check on Bodie Still, she supposed since he was a stranger to Pine Hill, she understood why the wout instinct that told her he was a decent person, she should have requested one herself

She wouldn’t tell the spying queens, but knowing they’d checked Bodie outhim at his word He’d coh ethics Time would tell

“Sheriff Roscoe says he’s clean,” Maybelle continued in her deadpan voice, letting Sarah know a punch line was about to come

She wasn’t disappointed

“Not even a speeding ticket on his record”

Sarah fought sticking her tongue out at Maybelle She ay too old to do so, but sometirade school, hanging with Aunt Jean and them as they worked on some project They’d always included her, always treated her as if she belonged to them all rather than just Aunt Jean

“If that was a jab at hter in Maybelle’s eyes, “You should know that I was running late to meet with the school board about our back-to-school backpack progra that fast”