Niamh blushed, and I felt bad that she felt so awkward about finding a guy. She'd been stuck, practically a prisoner, in my home, and at my beck and call since I'd hired her five years previously. She never took vacations and for a young girl she spent way too much time on her own.
I was happy that she was taking steps to see someone. Lee, too, for that matter, and I hoped it worked out because if it didn't, there was another cluster-fuck brewing in my future. Their relationship... complicated things. It was obvious to me that things only went smoothly because of the people around me. My life was less than conventional at the best of times, Niamh and Lee were my stability. Them and Valerie.