Chapter Six

"Len? No. Why would he call me?" She felt the hair rising on the back of her neck.

"He said you tried to call him."

"Oh," she let her breath out quickly in relief. "That was before I took the job."

"Why were you trying to call him?"

Lisa hesitated. Connie still didn't know about her car. "Nothing important. I just wanted to ask him something."

Connie chuckled. "He is kind of cute, isn't he?"

"Yeah. Uh . . . I'd better go now. I think I hear someone coming down the hall."

"So?"

"I'll talk to you later. Bye." Lisa closed the phone and listened as Giddon walked by. Did he hear her? It was no big deal that she had a cell phone, but he would wonder why she was hiding it from him, and that was a question she couldn't answer. Maybe it was the intrigue, or maybe it was that gut feeling that something wasn't as it appeared. Whatever the reason, it felt good to have options he didn't know about.

Three weeks after she began working for the Giddons, they had the pool filled. Finally she felt comfortable about her wages. Tammy could swim almost as well as Lisa, but Sarah couldn't swim at all, confessing unabashed that she was afraid of the water. Tammy was finally allowed to swim to her heart's content . . . apparently for the first time. They usually spent the morning hours in the garden and the afternoon at the pool.