Madigan.”
Heather put her head in her hands, groaned, then grinned. “That name. So funny. But so endearing.”
“She was a great lady.”
“I know. I miss her so much.” Heather glanced around, misty-eyed, then reached for a tissue. “I keep these everywhere,” she confessed. “Women get to talking and then they spill their guts about everything, and we have a cry fest, and go through crazy boxes of tissues.”
Meredith considered that. “That part is different with a spa. People aren’t so close together. There’s more autonomy.”
“Is that good or bad?” Heather wondered.
Meredith made a face. “Until just now I considered it the norm, but you’ve given me reason to rethink part of the layout. Because I think people would miss this.” She nodded toward the closer, tighter spacing of the old-style salon. “And we don’t want that.”
“I don’t have a lot of money, Mere.” Heather faced her, square and honest. “I had to re-mortgage when Brady took off and there’s no leverage to do that again.”
“We’ve got start-up costs from Gram,” Meredith explained. She opened the proposal to page four and pointed. “What you’d be bringing to the table is customers. Familiarity. A base from which to build.”
Heather examined the papers, then sat back. “It’s a lot to consider.”
“Yes.”
“I’ve done things my own way for a long time.”
“And now there’d be two of us running things. And a crew to run.”
“A crew.” Heather’s eyes sparkled. “I’ve always thought how fun it would be to run a place.”
“And hard work,” Meredith advised her. “You have to handle all the down stuff, the negative stuff, the backstabbing-girl stuff.”
“Well, that won’t happen, so that’s not a problem,” Heather declared.
“No?” Mere eyed her, amused. She knew better.
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