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at her, then the woman, and Jade could see the panic on his face. “I demand that you fire her.”
    “Jade?” She wanted to smack him but only came into his office with the woman and told him the same thing she’d told the woman. “You want a head of lettuce? Like the kind you get at the supermarket? We don’t have things like that here. We just sell plants.”
    “And your sign outside said you have fresh vegetable plants. I want a head of lettuce , and I want it now. And it had better not be one of the ones I can get at the local market either. Your sign says fresh, so I want fresh.” The woman sat down and glared when neither of them moved. “Well, get to it. I don’t have all day. They’re going to be at the house at five, and I still have to find a fresh roast.”
    Jade walked out of the office and moved to her workstation. She almost felt sorry for the butcher. She was going to demand that he kill a cow and cut it up for her on the store floor, she just knew it. When Dick yelled at her, she stopped.
    “ Aren’t you going to take care of her?” Jade looked at his office, where the woman was smiling back at her. “You brought her to my office. Now deal with her. Get her some fresh lettuce.”
    “I don’t have any on me at the moment.” She had to catch herself from saying that she couldn’t shit him one either. “You’re the manager, you deal with her. I’ve done all I can do.”
    “You’re refusing to do what I tell you?” Jade opened her mouth and closed it twice before he continued. “You get her a head of fresh lettuce and be quick about it. If there is one thing I learned in college, it was that the customer is always right.”
    “But she’s not right. We don’t have that kind of lettuce here in plants, and we certainly don’t have a head of it. Tell her to go to the store and get it like everyone else.” Dick was shaking his head. “I can’t give her what we don’t have.”
    “Then you leave me no choice but to fire you.” Jade looked at him, trying to figure out if he was serious or not, when he turned on his heel and walked away from her. She stood there for several more seconds until she heard him telling Vicky to get some fresh lettuce. Jade pulled out the Touch mobile phone and called Blair.
    “Do you know how to get in touch with that guy Witt?” He told her he was there. “Tell him that his boss just fired me and he’s working on firing Vicky, too. In another ten minutes…never mind, the guy just fired his two employees, and he doesn’t know a bean from a tree.”
    She was waiting on her ride when the big SUV showed up. Jade didn’t speak to him when he and Blair moved by her , and when Angie stopped to sit beside her, she tried to get her to go with her dad.
    “He’s pretty mad. Daddy said that he has more important things to do than to run around finding people who know their job.” She giggled. “I think he’s mad at Debra, too.”
    Good for him , Jade thought. He was smarter than she thought. “He’s going to be fine. The guy he hired isn’t a fit for this job. Like your dad said, he needs someone that knows about this business before he can make it work.”
    “He should hire you to be the boss. You can be scary when you want to.” Jade wasn’t sure that was a compliment or not so didn’t say anything. “Besides, don’t you know the difference between a bean and a tree? I do and I’m only six.”
    Jade burst out laughing. The little girl was cute , and she was funny. Jade hadn’t realized how much she needed a good laugh until then. When Angie went on to explain other differences she knew, Jade thought about the man in the building behind them. She wanted him.
    She had a feeling that he wanted her , too, but she knew why, and she was pretty sure he didn’t. Having a mate, even one as charming as he seemed to be, wasn’t anything she was ready for. Not yet at any rate. The first thing he’d want to do would be to make her quit working, and then