Moonshine by Jasmine Gower

Author:Jasmine Gower [Gower, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, historical fantasy, Fiction
ISBN: 9780857667359
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2018-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Amelia surprised Daisy the next afternoon with a visit to the office. The front door slammed open as she staggered in overburdened with a cardboard box cradled in her arms. Daisy was at her desk, trying to locate a hole in it that might have matched the loose screw she found on the floor that morning, but she sat up straight as Amelia approached. After Vinnie’s raging visit to complain about his paycheck, Daisy was a little nervous about the warehouse folks coming up to the main office, but Amelia only stepped up to drop the box on Daisy’s desk and paused to inhale several labored breaths.

“What’s all this?” Daisy asked.

Amelia lifted the lid off the box, exposing several thick stacks of paper slips bundled together. “Patron accounts – settled tabs and all that. Help me file them in Swarz’s office?”

“Shouldn’t they go to Rudolph?”

“Nope. Vinnie already ran the numbers. Here, help me lift this beast.” Amelia grabbed one end and Daisy stood to take the other, and together they awkwardly hobbled into Mr Swarz’s office. He and Angel had gone out together for a late lunch, but Daisy trusted Amelia that they were allowed in there to file the accounts. Plopping the box down in front of the wall of disorderly client files, Amelia got right to work grabbing a stack and pulling out sheets. “Here, you find the folder that matches the client number.” Daisy glanced at the files along the wall, and when Amelia saw her grimace, she added, “They aren’t in alphabetical order or anything, so good luck.”

Daisy did her best hunting down the files that Amelia called for, glad to be up from her desk even as she felt a little swept away by Amelia’s sudden appearance. It was easy but boring work, and as they made progress Daisy tried striking up a conversation. “So, Vinnie does accounting, too?”

“Only because he doesn’t trust Rudolph with it.”

“But isn’t he a bartender?”

Amelia shrugged. She handed Daisy the last sheet in her current stack and reached down to fish out another. “I mean, downstairs we split the work however we have to. The basic breakdown is Vinnie at the bar, me at the tables, Jonas at the door, and Regina on the stage, and we all play a part in guarding the supply down there, but honestly? Stripes is starting outgrow its unders. We’re a bit understaffed, even since you came on board.”

Outgrow its unders. Daisy liked that saying – it sounded like something Amelia had picked up from Frisk, which reminded Daisy: “Is Frisk feeling any better?”

Amelia kept her eyes focused on the papers in her hand. “Oh, yeah. She’s doing a lot better. Um.” She pulled loose the next account to be filed, but she paused before she read the client number to Daisy. “Thanks, actually. I probably should have said it sooner–”

“Thanks for what?”

Amelia looked up to wrinkle her nose at Daisy. “Oh, don’t try to be coy with me. You saved my girl’s skin at the Gin Fountain.

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