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smile crossed her lips. She was pretty when she smiled. She should do it more often.
    He didn’t often make a snap decision like this, but something, or Someone, was pushing him into it. “If you’d like the job, it’s yours. When can you start?”
    “Today if you want.” She paused. “What about references?”
    “We’ll start with a two week trial.” He tilted his head at the shudder that ran through her at the word trial. “If it doesn’t work out, or you don’t like it, then I pay you the two weeks and we go our separate ways. Do you drive?”
    She looked down, her cheeks going a pale red. “No.”
    “OK, it’s not a problem. The school is within walking distance, anyway. And the buses are pretty good. I’ll meet you at the house at two. That will give me time to show you around, before we do the school run.” He wrote down the address and gave it to her. “I’ll need your phone number.”
    “Oh…right.” She pulled her phone from her pocket. “I’m not sure how to find the number. It’s a new phone…I lost the other one.”
    “Unless…” He pulled out his phone and checked the received calls. “Your number’s still stored from when you called me earlier, I think.” He hit redial and Amy’s phone rang. He added her to his contact list. “There you go.”
    She picked up her bag. “I’ll see you at two, Mr. Philips.” She stood and headed to the door.
    Dane sat down again as she left.
    Nate slid into the seat Amy had just vacated and put the folded newspaper on the table. “Well, she’s pretty. How did it go?”
    “She starts this afternoon.”
    “Really? On the basis of a fifteen minute conversation? You hardly know her. Did you get references, qualifications, experience?”
    “She told me enough to hire her on a two week trail, which either of us can terminate if need be.”
    Nate rolled his eyes. “Dane, these are your kids we’re talking about. She might have a record.”
    “No one else applied. The Guv is on the war path and as good as told me to sort something out or my job is on the line. What am I meant to do?”
    “Use an agency.” He shook his head. “And the fact she’s young and pretty has nothing to do with it?”
    This time Dane rolled his eyes. “You’re a married man.”
    His partner pointed at him. “Married, not blind.”
    “Whatever, but it’s a moot point. I’m old enough to be her father…well almost.”
    “That makes her what? Fifteen?”
    “Twenty-seven.”
    “And you’re forty-three. That isn’t that big an age gap.”
    Dane rolled his eyes again. “Enough of the matchmaking. I need a nanny and she needs a job. And from the way she accepted so fast, ignoring a huge pay cut, somewhere to live as well.”
    Nate laughed. “Uh huh.”
    “I’ll give you uh huh.”
    His partner tilted his head. “So I guess I’m covering for you again this afternoon.”
    “Just from two. So I can show her the house, school run, get her settled, meet the kids and so on.”
    “Fine, but it’s the last time. We’ll both be out of the office, working hard on this murder. Speaking of which, I had a text from the morgue. Professor Jacobs requests the pleasure of our company ASAP.”
    Dane rose. “Oh, that sounds like fun.”
    “Sure you don’t want to be a stay-at-home dad?” Nate quipped.
    “Shut up and give me the car keys. It’s my turn to drive.”
     
     
     
     
     
     

3
     
    Amy walked down the street in shock. Had it really been that easy? No more than fifteen minutes, and she had a job and somewhere to live. Despite the drop in salary, she’d still be better off each month than she was before as she didn’t have to pay the bills or buy food. And how hard could it be to look after two kids and a house? Even with half term coming up at the end of the month, it couldn’t be that difficult. There must be plenty of things around here that they could do.
    She’d been honest about her qualifications at any rate and the experience. It was enough