Chapter 40 Game On, Thompson

• ~Joan~
• I'd taken a few days off from work to help Rhoda plan her birthday party. When I wasn't planning, I was writing. Shayne had reached out to me a couple of times to ask how the manuscript was coming along. She was the best editor—when she wasn’t micromanaging me. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen often.
• Rhoda had gone all out with the decorations, as if she'd forgotten it was Aaron's house she was using. Speaking of Aaron, he’d given her a second chance to host the party and, surprisingly, hadn’t made an issue about me attending. But then again, Aaron wasn’t a man who repeated himself. If he said something once, he meant it.