“Manaia is pulling into our driveway. Fritz says for you to stay inside and let him do his job.”Our bedroom door burst open, and Cassidy was in fu...ll ninja mode.“Get back from the window,” she ordered.“The guy only has a camera,” I complained.Cassidy must have realized I was naked because she suddenly blushed.“Put some clothes on,” Brook ordered.I kept my smart comments to myself and did as I was told. I grabbed a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and went back to the window where Cassidy and Brook. No one knew who you were. It was just a lucky draw that Arnie hired you instead of some other hacker.”That hurt. But it hadn’t been random. Arnie had known the work I’d done on the Henderson case. He knew if he waved the red flag of stealing corporate funds, I’d charge at it. He wasn’t expecting I’d actually find something.“You’ve been played, Jen. I’m only here to distract you,” I said. “Tell the team you don’t think I’m out of the game yet. In fact, I’m sending you a file that suggests that. Thankfully nothing else that exciting happened the next day. We left early the following day and got back late Sunday night, my mom checked the answering machine and told me that I had a phone call from a guy named Billy. I couldn’t believe it, he called, so I called him back and we talked for a while. I told him about how great my vacation was, and about Phil and Luke and then about my scary scene with Jim and Mike. We then set up a date for the following Friday night.Billy picked me up. I needed more time to bask in this glow!Instead, we had luncheon guests. We had a future son-in-law to get to know. We had the preacher to entertain. And we had to watch Anna pack Jennifer and Courtney into the car and follow the Prices back to Kokomo. We’d managed an all-too-brief kiss in the garage before she left, crying at our parting and promising to talk later tonight.To talk, to plan. To try to arrange our lives so that we could be together without appearing to be forcing our children.