When Evan left, Lily told Jonathan he was nuts. “He’s great-looking, employed, and likes you,” she said. “What’s the problem?”

“He’s great-looking, employed, and likes me.”

Lily blinked. “Huh?”

“Listen,” Jonathan said. “I only go for the head cases. It’s my thing.”

“Yeah? And how’s that working out for you?”

He grinned. “Forget it, Lily Pad. You can’t reform me. Head cases bang head cases. It’s what we do.” He tugged a strand of her hair. “We also hang out together in clusters. Welcome to the cluster.”

She sighed. “So we’re all crazy? The whole salon?”

“Yes,” he said. “And while we’re in between clients, I just remembered—I need you to do something for me.”

“What?”

“Take over all the product ordering.”

Lily blinked. “When you hired me, you said you didn’t want me to do anything but handle the clients.”

“Well, I was wrong.”

She narrowed her eyes. “You also said you’re never wrong.”

He blew out a sigh. “Just do this, okay? Take over the ordering for me? I totally trust you to handle it.”

“That’s nice,” she said. “But you’re not usually nice. What’s going on here?”

“You know how you said I should give Evan a shot?”

“Yes,” she said.

“Well, the truth is that I already did. And let’s just say it wasn’t a smooth morning after.”

She gave him a bland look. “Didn’t we already have this conversation about Terika?”

Jonathan tried to look repentant and failed.

Lily sighed. “How not smooth?”

“We had a great night but he’s just so …” He searched for a word. “Sweet.”

“That bastard,” Lily said.

Jonathan gave a little smile. “He’s too good for me, and I’m not going to change my mind. I’m not one to settle down, you know that. I’d just hurt him.”

“So you’re going to cut off your friendship with him,” she said with a shake of her head. “Cuz that’s not going to hurt at all, Jonathan.”

“That’s why we don’t tell him. All he needs to know is that my new assistant manager is doing the ordering now.”

She went brows up.

“Oh, yeah,” he said. “Congrats. You got a promotion.”

“Does this promotion come with a raise?”

“It’s not that kind of promotion,” Jonathan said.

“Uh-huh.” She eyeballed the supply wall, where everything they bought was on display for their customers. She’d been wanting to redo that wall for two weeks. “Okay if I make a few changes to our display then?”

“Fine by me,” Jonathan said. “And if Evan doesn’t like it, we’ll tell him I did it.”

“Yeah, that’s just what Michael told me, and look what happened,” she said. “I was out on my ass so fast my head’s still spinning.”