Chapter Four
“Ah, Miss Fitzgerald, you are coming to the New Year’s fest,” the elder Reynolds asked, as he passed by her desk just outside Alvin Perkins’ office. This was a promotion of sorts, to be executive secretary for one of the board members, but it did take her away from Albert most of the day and kept her in close proximity to her future father-in-law. Jonquil had talked a lot about wedding plans during her Christmas stay at the city house. She’d only been there Christmas night, preferring Christmas Eve with her father in his small townhouse. Even Albert agreed that she needed to nurture her ailing parent. The situation worked out well. She had only an hour in the Reynolds’ house with Jack before he had to take off to a former girlfriend’s buffet dinner.
“What kind of thing is
