We were both seventeen and had known each other since we were six.When we first met, her parents were still married and I've known them through all th... mess of her mom getting caught by the wife of the guy she was fooling around with and her calling Rose's dad, Earl.So, they split the blanket and Rose stayed with her dad.He's a really nice guy, kind of quiet, nice looking, forty-one, I think. Rose has always been very close to her Dad and she still gets in his bed every night and he reads to. It’s obvious, even when she’s sitting in her wheelchair, and Amelia smiles when she sees their double take, when the watching women fully register she’s in a wheelchair. Men see her too, and they’re confused. They see the sexiness in her, and their eyes narrow as they look at me, and it’s alpha male stuff. Their confusion shows. Wait, she can’t be sexy, she’s in a wheelchair, doesn’t really short hair mean she’s butch, or it’s cancer or something? I stare them down – yes mate, you saw right the. Shirl was ticking off points from a sheet of paper. Scott mostly listened and nodded. The grand opening for the second-floor restaurant was two weeks away. She didn't need his input, but he'd be a sounding board if she thought it helped.The second floor had a new full-service kitchen that met all code requirements, including a new fire exit at the rear of the building. The dining floor was organized around three tiers, including an intimate bar. Shirl told him that the bartenders were fighting. Lisa is following me to the apartment to drop my old one off there to keep Paul and Linda's house from looking like a parking lot." Are you coming to Pam's going away party?" I had planned to do that unless the bank's president thinks it would be inappropriate." I hate it that you hired a promising employee away from us but we'll survive. It will start at four. If you could come by about three fifteen to talk with me, I have a business issue for you to consider." Sure. I will have Lisa with me.