A Change Had To Come by Gwynne Forster

Author:Gwynne Forster [Forster, Gwynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

Sunday afternoon at home, Leticia finished a leisurely lunch, curled up on her living room sofa and opened a copy of the Washington Post, but immediately the phone rang, and when she answered, Jeannine’s voice grated on her ears.

“Leticia. I know it’s Sunday and you probably don’t want to be disturbed, but several of our members were interviewed about you, and The Herald is putting out a fantastic piece on you and what your presence to the club has meant.”

An attack of nervous jitters besieged Leticia. “Please, Jeannine. I’m not writing comedy any longer. My editor convincedme that no one will take me seriously as a columnist if I write jokes.”

“Oh, nobody mentioned the funny stuff, since it didn’t get a good review. We talked about your African junket. The part you told us about at the meeting.”

“But won’t that mean The Herald is promoting its competition?”

“Good heavens, no. Annie’s brother is editor in chief, and he’s not crazy. Be sure and get a copy.”

Leticia thanked the woman and hung up. If she was worth a story in a rival paper, she had arrived professionally. She went to her computer, looked up Geraldine Thomas, her old nemesis, and located her at once. The next morning at the office, she put a copy of The Journal that carried her story and byline and the copy of The Herald that ran a story of her in an envelope and mailed them to Geraldine. How sweet it was! She almost skipped from the mailroom back toward her office.

Impulsively, when she reached Max’s office, she stopped and knocked on the door. “Come in,” he said in that urgent, it had better be important way of his.

He didn’t look up immediately, so she remained silent until he stopped typing. He glanced up a little and then enough to see her face. “Hi. What’s up?” he said. “If I hadn’t seen your shoes, I wasn’t going to say a word in the hopes that whoever it was would leave.”

“If I go get some coffee, will I be more welcome?”

His smile jolted her. Was he playing games? Surely not Max. “You’re welcome without it, but I sure would love a cup.”

She brought coffee for two and cranberry muffins. “Don’t start expecting it,” she said. “I have a feeling you’d spoil easily.”

“I can’t confirm or deny that, Leticia, since nobody ever tests the theory.”

She sipped her coffee, broke off a piece of muffin and got comfortable. “Max, a man like you ought to be able to get himself spoiled at will.” He jumped up, obviously having spilled coffee on his trousers.

“What happened?”

“Woman, you are damned disconcerting.”

“I did something a minute ago that made my soul sing.”

“That’s two of us,” he murmured, and though she heard him, she didn’t understand the basis for the comment. “What did you do?” he asked.

She told him how Geraldine’s comments deflated her moments after she completed her summa cum laude address at their commencement. “I told her she’d hear from me, and I meant to keep my word.

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