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information.  It’s a woman I work with. She’s smart, funny, pretty, doesn’t work in my department, and doesn’t have any supervisory links to me so we wouldn’t break the company fraternization policy.  She’s in accounting, smart as a whip, a little bit of a geek and has a weakness for sugar free strawberry candies.” She could hear the smile in his voice as he talked about her.
    “So what’s the problem, is she a drug addict? The boss’s daughter? Moonlights as a stripper?” Maria knew about the work thing, but that was a long time ago, and that woman was an idiot anyhow, Danny was young and blinded by a pair of big tits that put out.
    “She is none of those things ; the problem is we work together. What happens if things don’t work out? It could be awkward, and I’d hate for her to feel awkward about anything.” He already wanted to keep her safe from everything, he was halfway gone and he didn’t even know it.
    “Danny, if you never take a chance you and that fat , cranky, half blind cat are going to rattle around alone in that house forever. Go for it, trade some emails, have a nice nonthreatening cup of coffee. See if anything clicks and if it does take her on an actual date, you remember what those are right?  If you do, can you remind Rocco, because since we had the twins I think he’s forgotten.”  Maria always knew the right thing to say, calling her was the right thing to do.
    “O kay, I’ll keep you posted on operation bonnie lass,” he chuckled.
    “Her name ’s Bonnie?” Maria asked fishing for more details to gossip with her sisters about.
    “No, her name isn’t Bonnie and I’m not going to tell you her name . I don’t need you looking on the company website and harassing her by phone and email.  Bonnie lass because she’s a sweet Irish girl, red hair, green eyes, freckles, the whole nine.” He actually made a dreamy sigh at that last part, what the hell was wrong with him? 
    “Irish? Ma’s going to have a cow, but if Sophia can convert and marry that nice Rabbi, Ma can deal with Irish, especially since she’s probably Catholic.”
    “Goodbye Maria, I’m hanging up, and not a word to the rest of the coven, I mean it,” he lovingly referred to his sisters as a group of witches, yup, lovingly.
    He hung up the phone, opened his office door and decided to make the rounds. Well, everywhere but Cora’s area, he needed to think on that one, decide the right approach.

Chapter 7
    “It’s been three days, he’s not going to respond. That’s okay, I’m not upset about it, I knew he wasn’t going to anyway,” Cora was chain eating M&Ms on a cold park bench outside with Kaelyn.
    “First of all, give me the candy .” She held out her hand and did that come here motion, grabbing them away, “Secondly, you didn’t answer the ad the first day you saw it, you thought about it, decided what you wanted to do. You need to let him think, don’t jump to any conclusions just yet.”
    “O kay, Okay, now give me back my candy, bitch,” Cora said through clenched teeth.
    “Nope, the baby needs these more than you do,” Kaelyn tossed that comment out there, like the sky is blue, or the apples are delicious.
    Cora squeezed her friend, “Again?  You know birth control is legal, right?”  She was happy for them, although she felt that twinge of sadness she felt whenever she found out any of her friends were pregnant.
    “We actually were using birth control . Tommy obviously has super sperm, he’s quite proud of himself,” she gloated, just a little, wifely pride and all.
    “Will you come back to work this time?” God she hoped so, this place would be much less tolerable without Kaelyn.
    “Probably, don’t know yet, we only found out yesterday . No plans for anything yet, just sore boobs and exhaustion.”
    “O kay, break time is over, let’s get back to work mama.” Hooking her arm through Kaelyn’s, they walked across the parking lot and back in to building A.
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