Breaking the Bank by Yona Zeldis McDonough

Author:Yona Zeldis McDonough
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2009-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

The leftovers were from McDonald’s, though Mia thought that calling the place a restaurant was a major stretch.

“It’s okay,” she told him. “I wanted to do it. My pleasure, in fact.” Which was, Mia reflected, the truth. Use it well. She was trying. Mia went inside and headed straight for the medicine chest. Hadn’t she seen Pepto Bismol when the police were here? Right behind the RID and the lice comb? She found it and guzzled the thick, pink liquid right from the bottle.

MONDAY MORNING MIA made sure she got to the office early. She had to hustle, what with her wasted day on Friday and all the work she now had piled up on her desk. But it turned out to be a day punctured by a half-dozen small and irritating distractions. A baby-shower breakfast for the very pregnant art director, some major screwup with the computer system, a meeting she had totally forgotten about.

The call came while she was at the meeting; Mia could see the editorial director glare at her when the phone beeped and Mia fumbled quickly to turn it off. But not before she saw the name and number on the tiny screen: Feinberg, Schrank, Liebowitz, and Saul. Stuart. Well, he was going to have to wait. She turned off the phone and stuffed it down, way down, into her bag. The meeting was mercifully brief, and Mia, sufficiently glutted by the bagel and sticky buns she had consumed at the shower, decided to spend lunch at her desk. She turned the phone back on to vibrate, and as soon as she did, she could feel it humming, like some -thing set to explode. It was Stuart again, and this time she took his call.

“Are you stalking me?” she asked. “Are you avoiding me?” he shot back. “I’m not avoiding you.”

“Mia, this is me, Stuart. I know you, remember? And I know when you’re avoiding me.”

“All right then. So I’m avoiding you. Can you blame me?”

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