The Sounds of Home by Greenwood Muir Diane

Author:Greenwood Muir, Diane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nammynools Publications
Published: 2019-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

"Oh, sweet girl that I love. Knock, knock."

Polly looked up and smiled at her husband who stood in the door to her office. "What are you doing here?"

He glanced at the paintings sitting on the floor behind her. "Are those from Beryl?"

She spun in her seat, though she knew what he was looking at. "Aren’t they amazing? She brought them by last week. I need to hang them on the wall."

"You need to?"

"Stop it," she said with a laugh. "I need to ask Scott or Eliseo to hang them."

"I could do it for you." He strode over, tipped one forward, and looked at the back. "I have the right tools in the truck."

"It's okay. Why are you here?"

"Just met with Ken." Henry sat on the corner of her desk. "Polly, do you know how much I don’t like explaining to the police that I don't hire criminals? I trust my guys. Nobody I've hired or fired would deliberately harm me. He asked me to go through the last five years of my employee records."

"Have you asked Jessie to do that?"

Jessie Locke worked for Henry and his father out of an office at the shop beside Bill and Marie's house. Her daughter, Molly, was four and a half years old. Only one more year until that child would be in school. Henry's mother, Marie, had loved every minute of caring for the little girl, knowing that Polly and Henry wouldn't have babies. Lonnie, Henry's sister, was dating a man who had a sweet daughter. They lived in Ann Arbor, so when they got married and if they had children, Marie would have to travel in order to be a grandma. Molly was a gift.

"I should," he said. "She'd pull the report faster than I could. It's just more than I want to think about." Henry stood up. "I'm going to hang these for you. I'll be right back."

She knew better than to argue. Polly hated it when Henry was faced with difficult things that were out of his control. She was used to it happening to her. Dead bodies, kids out of their minds, on and on. But Henry still felt that he should be able to fix it and make it right. He took things like this personally and it wounded him to his core.

The intercom on her desk phone beeped and Kristen said, "Polly, there's someone here to see you. Can I send him back?"

"Him?" Polly asked.

"Me," came a familiar voice. "Come on, Pol, you know you want to see me."

She laughed. "Send him back here."

Doors opened and closed, and Polly was standing by the sofa when Jon Renaldi walked into her office.

"Oh, Polly Giller, you are a sight for sore eyes. I've missed you," he said as he hugged her tight.

"I've missed you, too. I thought you and Ray were going to be in the neighborhood more often. It's been months."

"I know. Lawyers and more lawyers and if it seems like three should be enough to represent one man, then three more are invited to join the team.

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