Beth
I will admit, I was a little anxious to meet Rafe’s new assistant. Deep down I wasn’t really comfortable having yet another woman who was going to be close with Rafe day in and day out now living under our roof. But I forced myself to be the bigger person, and at least pretend that I wasn’t jealous and insecure.
Besides, it wasn’t my house. I just lived there.
That’s why I forced myself to work until Lucy came to call me for dinner.
“Did you meet Daddy’s new assistant?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, what’s she like?”
“She’s okay. She’s tall, she has glasses. She’s kind of funny,” Lucy shrugged. “I think you will like her.”
I actually valued Lucy’s opinion. She had an excellent, intuitive judge of people’s character.
She was already seated at the table when I arrived. She was tall. In fact
