“I like the jobs we’ve been doing,” Julia Barone, their office manager, said. It was still strange to hear shy Julia talk during a meeting without being forced. It was even stranger to see her sitting at the table with everyone else instead of hiding behind one of the huge plants she’d positioned throughout the building. But then, she did have her husband at her side, and Joe wouldn’t let anything, or anyone, intimidate his wife. Ever. There were days when watching Joe and Julia together was just too cute for Elle to bear.
