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Moments later her phone beeped.

The nursery.

Destiny quickly replied.

Wait for me. I’ll be right there.

The one person she felt like she could share this bizarre story with was Mark. They had worked together for several years and he had remained her friend through the breakup. He knew parts of Faith’s past and had similar experiences with inattentive parents growing up.

As she drove to the nursery, Destiny sighed. “What a fucking night,” she murmured.

The same thought kept running through her head. How could she think I would do that?

“Not good enough.” Destiny hit the steering wheel with her hand. Faith had explained her fears then dropped that bomb about not being good enough for Destiny.

“What bullshit,” she said a little louder. Then she sighed and felt the exhaustion wrap around her like Faith’s hoodie. Only this wasn’t the sweet feeling of a hug.

Gloria must have really wanted to win that project, Destiny thought, but she had to also be a despicable person to go about it that way. Destiny would see Gloria one of these days and she intended to get answers then.

Destiny pulled into the parking lot and saw Mark sitting on the tailgate of his truck waiting for her.

“You aren’t trying to get me in trouble with my boss, are you?” he teased as Destiny walked up.

“I’m sure your boss would be fine with me talking to you today.” She sat next to him and swung her legs.

“Oh yeah? She didn’t come in this morning which is unusual,” Mark said.

“She was with me.”

It was almost comical the way Mark’s eyebrows flew up his forehead. “Oh really?”

Destiny nodded. She told him the story of how they ended up trapped in the little shack all night.

“Damn!” he exclaimed. “I hope you’ll let the big boss know. That’s dangerous.”

“Yeah,” Destiny said. “The handler apologized and explained the changes he would make.”

“So?” Mark inquired.

Destiny smiled. “Do you remember when we were working for the Galloways and you were on Kyle’s crew?”

Mark nodded.

“Who ran things after he left?”

“Well, Mr. Galloway lined us out in the morning and we did our jobs.” He shrugged.

“No one tried to take over or anything?”

Mark gave her a puzzled look. “Gloria was always trying to run things, but no one paid her much mind. They just did their jobs. I quit and went to work with Faith right after Kyle left. I’m sure she ended up with the crew.”

“You’ll never guess what she did,” Destiny said.

“Oh, I don’t know,” Mark said, raising an eyebrow. “That woman has a mean streak.”

Destiny reminded him of the doctor’s office and the three flower beds at the job.

“Gloria got the hoodie out of my truck one day and wore it to destroy the flower bed Faith’s crew had created at the doctor’s office,” Destiny said.

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