Page 61 of Electric Kiss

Teddy gave her a bark and licked her hand again.

The door opened a second time, and something else was sent in, closely followed by the door closing. She heard a screech and a gurgle.

“Isobel,” Daisy said and sighed.

She was off her seat and around her desk in seconds,grinning down at her niece in her wheelie bouncer. Isobel clutched a white piece of paper with writing on it.

“What have we got here?” she asked Isobel.

Leaning down, Daisy lifted Isobel out of the bouncer and cuddled her close, raining kisses over her face and getting more giggles from the little girl. Teddy weaved in and out of her legs in dog excitement.

“I missed my baby cuddles,” she said to Isobel and breathed in her baby smells. “You’re so cute.”

When Teddy settled under her desk, she walked with Isobel to the office door and pulled it open. Erica, Heidi and Freya held hands on the opposite side of the corridor. Her first thought was, why weren’t they at work.

Daisy’s heart skipped a beat as she looked at the trio standing across the corridor.

Erica, Heidi, and Freya entered the office, and Teddy ran to them, wagging his tail. Daisy placed Isobel in her bouncer and went back to her desk to get the white piece of paper.

Daisy furrowed her brows and looked at the piece of paper in her hand. It was a hand-drawn picture of a unicorn with a rainbow mane and a smiley face. She let out a chuckle and handed it to Isobel, who held it up and gurgled with delight.

“Hey girls, what brings you here?” Daisy asked as she ushered them into her office.

Erica, Heidi, and Freya exchanged glances, and then Erica spoke up. “We just needed a break from work and thought we could hang out with our favourite Turner.

“Christ. If I’m your favourite Turner, things must be bad.”

The girls laughed and settled into her seats. Erica sat on the low window sill with Isobel bouncing around the room.

“I appreciate the visit and the baby and dog love, but I don’t want you taking sides on this. You have to live with my brothers. They don’t want to know me.”

“We’re working on that. We want to hear your side, plus we’re women sticking together. So I’ll decide whose side I’m taking, not my husband,” Erica said.

“Absolutely,” Heidi nodded.

“I’ve only just got to know you, Daisy, and I know you’re a good person. Our husbands should be the first to understand whatever reason prompted this situation. They had their dad to help them through their teenage years and become the men they are. I bet Freddie will be turning in his grave at their behaviour.”

Daisy smiled at them and gestured towards the coffee machine.

“You know, you could have just called me, and we could have met for lunch or something. But it’s good to see you all here.”

She leaned back in her chair and looked at her three sisters-in-law. They were all dressed in casual clothes, which was unusual for them since they all had jobs.

“Why aren’t you at work?”

“Inset day,” Freya said.

“The film has wrapped,” Erica said.

“Day off. I love mid-week days off,” Heidi said.

“Jason said he’d stopped making you breakfast. I can assure you that will resume tomorrow,” Heidi declared.

She hauled up a box and plonked it on the desk. When she peeled back the lid, Daisy eyed up the cupcakes. They were lemon, her favourite.

“I’m working on Archer,” Erica said.

“I think Luke is more pissed off you’re dating Nate Hill than anything else,” Freya said.

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