A few days later, when she looked up after waiting on another customer, she found him standing in front of her checkout counter. He was grinning at he...."Hi, Carrie got any grocery items you'd like me to help you pick up today?" he said, with a wry smile. He was obviously teasing her."No," she said, returning his smile. "But, I'll keep your application on file, in case someone decides to drop a bag."He nodded. They both laughed. He loved her sassy sense of humor.For Carrie, her world turned. I waltzed through the door and immediately slammed it shut again to conceal Janine's half naked body draped over the small wooden desk that occupied the majority of the tiny office. She gave me an upside down wave and then silently shushed me with a finger. She didn't have to tell me to be quiet; I was struck dumb by the bob of red hair peaking out form across the table. Janine tried to suppress a giggle. “I hear laughing. Is—” I ducked behind the desk. “—laughing a good noise?” Tabitha. She thought buying this dream house would make her happy. Now, she was miserable. She removed her kids from the school they loved and left all their and her friends behind to move here to a better neighborhood. Only, the people in this neighborhood all had more than they had and with their plastic smiles and cool demeanors were standoffish because of it. It’s funny, she thought, how you don’t know how happy you are until you lose what you had and it’s too late to get it back. You can never go. He set his coffee cup down with a thump on the table. He’d known this moment was coming and he’d been avoiding it, as Ada’s past life was not secret to him. ‘I’ve already been in touch with the Rocky Mountain Construction Company. They are all the rage now, as they are rebuilding the lodge at Old Faithful up in Wyoming at Yellowstone Park. If we’re going to attract the celebrity dudes, we have to be up to date. So I want the same thing RMC is building up at the park: High-ceiling rooms, log.