A Mother's Heart by Linda Cardillo & Sharon Sala & Isabel Sharpe

Author:Linda Cardillo & Sharon Sala & Isabel Sharpe [Cardillo, Linda & Sala, Sharon & Sharpe, Isabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373837311
Google: gIcXStE4B4EC
Amazon: 0373837313
Goodreads: 5564886
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

MAGGIE STARED at her laptop. Something was very wrong here. She generally enjoyed a crisis, enjoyed that she was the one people ran to, the one who knew how to finesse a client and fly in with the save-the-day compromises everyone needed and could live with. Exhausting yes, stressful, no question, but ultimately satisfying.

Now that satisfaction had become the equivalent of feeling wonderful because you’d stopped beating your head against a wall. She knew what needed to be done. She could do it. But resentment was creeping…no, racing through her. The call had interrupted one of the most fabulous days she’d spent in a long time. How long since she went with the flow? How long since someone else organized her day and she got to sit back and enjoy it? How long since that person was the ex-love-of-her-life for whom Maggie was developing the beginnings of a dangerous relapse?

Who was Maggie, anyway? Big as the work crisis was, a bigger one brewed in her. She was either going nuts or becoming sane. Was there a Clara inside her dying to get out? Would she stop cleaning her apartment, take up sculpting again and get a smelly dog with a nose built for sexual harassment?

Would that end up being a good thing or not?

Her cell rang; she glanced at the number. George, her assistant. She closed her eyes, wanting the phone to self-destruct. Everyone at Anderson and Dargin must be convinced she was dead or lying in a hospital. When had she ever not answered? When had she ever not been available? Morning noon and night, vacation days, sick days…

“Hello?”

She listened wearily as he outlined staff problems, arguments, childish personality and ego issues.

“George, this is nothing new. Tell Stan the drawings stay the way the client wants them until we have a chance to explain his theory. Tell Darla to kiss up to their VP until I get back next week. And she should absolutely not let Stan speak with him. Clear?”

Yes, it was clear. He promised to handle it and hung up. Maggie’s e-mail dinged. Two new messages. One from Stan, one from Darla. She got up and went to the window, heart like a cinder block in her chest. She could be with Grant right now. She could be feeling the way she’d felt all afternoon. Happy. Free. Relaxed.

Her e-mail dinged again. She crossed back through the lovely room which currently felt like a maximum security prison. From Loren this time, the VP at Barkson’s Shoes. Maggie opened it and read his version of what an ass Stan was. Stan’s e-mail, a version of what an ass Loren was. Darla’s, predictably, announced that both Stan and Loren were asses.

Okay. This was her job. She had signed on to do it. Time to stop feeling sorry for herself and get busy.

Fifteen minutes and four e-mails later, the room phone rang and she reached absently, trying to figure out who she should—

“What room are you in?”

Grant. Her fingers stopped typing; her breath suddenly had trouble flowing smoothly.

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