Always by Sophie Lark

Author:Sophie Lark [Lark, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-24T16:00:00+00:00

15

When Anika went back to work Thursday morning, she found the office a mess and Gwen in a state of panic.

“What’s going on?” Anika asked.

“Margaret Givens, the woman from the Charities Bureau, she just emailed me. They’ve rejected our submission. They said we haven’t met the requirements for our board of directors.”

“What did she say?” Anika cried. “Show me the email.”

“I’m sorry,” Gwen moaned, as Anika read through it, “I must have screwed up the meeting somehow. She had a lot of questions for me, more than what was on the forms. And honestly, she just seemed to be in a horrible mood.”

“She’s always like that,” Anika said, distractedly. “I know her, I’ve met with her before. I should have been here yesterday.”

“I’m sorry,” Gwen said again. “You haven’t taken a day off in forever and I completely screwed this up.”

“No you didn’t,” Anika assured her. “It’s not your fault. We just need to go over the application again with a fine-tooth comb, get the CPA involved, and Aunt Molly. She’s head of the board of directors. She can restructure the membership, if need be. She’ll be back in town this weekend—I’ll take her the forms, get it sorted out.”

Anika could have kicked herself for agreeing to the trip with Marco. It had been incredible, but the timing couldn’t have been worse. It was completely unlike her to do something so irresponsible.

“I’m sorry,” Gwen said again. “That lawyer was here too, and he wasn’t helpful at all, he kept asking me—”

“Wait, what lawyer?” Anika asked.

“The one Marco sent. I thought he was going to help me with Margaret Givens, but he didn’t answer any of her questions or help with any of the paperwork, he just sat there listening the whole time, and then afterwards he wanted me to give him all the documentation as well—”

“Gwen,” Anika interrupted, “what are you talking about? There was a lawyer here? From Bennet Knight?”

“Yeah.”

“Marco sent him?”

“That’s right.”

“And he wanted copies of what?”

“Everything. Not just the application, but a bunch of other stuff too—sales reports, employee records…I gave him some of the stuff, but for the rest of it I said he needed to talk to you. Did he talk to you?”

Anika shook her head, utterly confused.

“Nobody talked to me,” she said.

She didn’t know why Marco had sent a lawyer over without telling her. Maybe he thought it would be helpful, since she wouldn’t be there with Gwen? But it sounded like he hadn’t been helpful at all.

She shook her head. She didn’t have time to stress over it at the moment. She had to catch up on what she’d missed and get hold of Aunt Molly.

Anika called her aunt repeatedly while answering emails, until Molly finally picked up.

“Yes?” Aunt Molly said sleepily.

Anika had forgotten it was five hours later in Portugal, and Aunt Molly went to bed early.

“I’m sorry Aunt Molly,” she said. “I didn’t mean to wake you up.”

“It’s fine, I wasn’t even sleeping,” Molly lied kindly.

“I need to bring some paperwork over this weekend.

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