Laura Drake - Twice in a Blue Moon

He moved to the second column and wrote VINES at the top. “We need to aerate the soil and fertilize. Like, yesterday.” He wrote the bullet point. “I haven’t found any fungus, but we have to keep a close eye on the humidity and the water content of the soil. But first, there’s the cleanup we talked about the other day.” She scribbled more notes. “This should already have been done, and we have no vineyard rats.”

“At least there’s some good news.” She shuddered. “I hate rodents.”

He covered a smile with his strict teacher’s glare. “Those are employees. We call the vineyard workers rats.”

“Oh.” She frowned. “And I suppose we have to pay that species?”

He turned back to label his third column, RETAIL. “Sales are down. We’ll need a marketing plan and an advertising budget.”

She leaned forward in the chair and propped her forearms on the paper-strewn desk. “That’s something I can do.”

He lifted an eyebrow. “Marketing or a budget?”

“Both.” She didn’t buff her fingernails on her shirt, but the pride in her voice was the equivalent.

A Hollywood showcase wife/marketing exec/accountant? Either she was delusional, or there was more to Indigo Blue than could be found in a Tinseltown gossip rag.

“I’ll rough out a budget, Danovan, but I’ll need your requirements for the first two columns.” She closed her notebook. “That’ll determine my budget for the last column.”

“What do you say we circle back this afternoon? I’ll do some research and have the numbers for you then.”

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