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she changed for bed.
Sleep was her only escape from this disaster of an evening. She
wanted this to all be a distant memory when morning arrived.

    Camey
walked through the back door of the shop to a deafening silence. Sara
and Reina were moving hastily in and out of the cooler pulling
arrangements to load into the delivery van. When Sara noticed Camey
had arrived she stopped in her tracks and hastened to her side.
    “Finally.
My sister is on a rampage.” Sara pulled Camey into the cooler,
trying to appear busy while questioning the previous night’s
events. “What the hell happened last night? Talia has been
impossible this morning. She’s already reamed me out three
times.”
    “I
don’t know. When I asked her who Landon was, she told me no one
of consequence. He was doing a really good job of looking interested,
but she just wouldn’t budge.”
    “Well,
we’re going to have to run interference between her and the
wedding planner if she continues on this tear. We can’t afford
to lose any clientele, especially not one of this magnitude.”
Camey quickly quieted when Talia entered the room.
    “Good,
you’re finally here. Some of these arrangements are subpar and
since you put them together, I thought you could fix them. Get them
up to my standards before we make the delivery.” Talia gave a
snide scowl and walked out of the cooler with a large arrangement of
hydrangeas and roses in hand.
    “Holy
shit, you weren’t kidding.” Camey inspected the remaining
arrangements waiting to be removed from the cooler and could find
nothing wrong, so she returned to the workroom to find her presumed
mistakes.
    Talia
ripped tulips, roses, and hydrangeas from one of the main
centerpieces placed on the metal workstation in the middle of the
room. “This is all wrong. These tulips are completely the wrong
color and the hydrangeas…” Talia scornfully rebuked
Camey. “Could you have chosen uglier hydrangeas? I can’t
believe Sara even signed for these.”
    Camey
cautiously moved closer to her, wanting to better examine the
offending flowers. “Talia, these hydrangeas are beautiful. I
don’t understand what the problem is.” She felt her voice
waver standing toe to toe with Talia.
    “Beautiful?
Are we looking at the same flowers?” Talia snatched a single
hydrangea stem from the table and shoved it in Camey’s face.
“Look at that.” She pointed to a slight blemish on the
edge of one of the many petals. “Do you see that discoloration?
That is not acceptable.”
    “It’s
barely even noticeable and I believe that the imperfections make the
flower more perfect. They add just a hint of character to an
otherwise somewhat dull flower.”
    “I
can’t believe I allow you to work in my shop. You have no idea what you’re talking about.” Talia began selectively
placing a new batch of tulips back in the arrangement and tossed the
imperfect hydrangea in the trash. “I’ll finish these up
since you seem to be rather incapable at the moment. Why don’t
you help the girls get the rest of the flowers loaded into the van?
We need to leave in thirty minutes.”
    Camey
stared after Talia in disbelief. She’d never acted this bitchy
before. Camey returned to the cooler, where Reina was silently
shaking her head. “Not a word.” She grabbed one of the
completed arrangements and carried it to the van.

    Landon
had been feeling off all day and heading to his mysterious job had
him feeling no different. The information Quincy gave was minimal.
All he had to prepare for the evening was the location of their date ,
his expected attire, and that the woman was to be called Lady Vanna.
The name alone made him groan in annoyance. When had his job become
so mind-numbing?
    As
Landon pulled into a quiet, run-down neighborhood, he began checking
addresses, finding the darkest, most dreary house on the block was
the home he was searching for. It was a bungalow style, but it was
painted in a dark, dismal gray. Every window was darkened