Chapter 15. We Had a Deal

“Amy, you are back! I am so sorry about your grandma,” Joanne exclaimed, giving Amy a big hug.

Amy blinked. “My grandma?”

Joanne released her from her embrace and looked at her, her eyes full of sympathy. “Brian told me you called and told him you needed a week off to visit your sick grandma in Tennessee.”

“I did?” Amy asked but then quickly recovered. “Ah, yes. I did. Poor granny,” she said, thinking about both of her grandmas, who had been dead for years now.

Joanne patted Amy’s arm. “You did a good thing by going to her. Family comes first.”

Amy forced a tight smile. “Thanks, Joanne. She will be fine. Where is Brian?”

Joanne glanced toward the back office. “He’s in the back office.” Joanne gave her another sympathetic smile. 

Amy swallowed down the guilt bubbling up inside her. “Yeah… thanks, Joanne.”

Amy made her way toward Brian’s office. So she wasn’t fired because someone called Brian and made up the fake grandma story.

She