Chapter Seven
Since Myrtle wasn’t completely satisfied with the result of her talk with Lee, she conveniently forgot to mention a few of the projects on her list. She was going to need an excuse to get the man back over to her house. He ended up surprising her by having done a very careful, thorough job with the repairs that she did give him to finish. The only thing that he hadn’t fixed was the planter that needed to be reattached to the back wall of the house—he hadn’t had the right screws. Red would be pleased, thought Myrtle as she watched Lee wave to her while carefully making his way through the maze of gnomes to his aging pickup truck.
Red was pleased. He ended up knocking on her door just an hour after Lee left. She showed him the work he’d done and Red nodded his head. “He didn
