** Harper **
"He's an editor." Harper tried to pretend that she didn't get the innuendo. "Of course he's good at polishing up books."
Chelsea tilted her head to the side, a signature thing she always did when she was in her gossip girl mode. "Oh yeah?" Her eyes gleamed with a sly light. "Only books though?"
"Eli is truly good at his job," May chimed in at the perfect time, seemingly oblivious to the direction that Chelsea was trying to go. "He might only be part-time, but he gets through his clients more efficiently than a lot of us full-timers. That was the main reason why I picked him to hand Harper's book over."
"Thank you, it worked out really well for me." Harper latched on to that digression immediately. She wouldn't miss such a great opportunity to both escape Chelsea's interrogation and steer the conversation toward gossips about Eli. "You two have been working together for a while?"