Close to Home by Deborah Raney

Author:Deborah Raney [Raney, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2016-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

18

Hey, Aaron?” Bree peeked around the corner of his cubicle. “Are you about ready to go? Sallie wanted us there by nine for a walk-through.” She looked pointedly at the office clock. She’d reminded him twice already. Now they only had fifteen minutes to get there, and the venue was the Show Me Center, the arena on the university campus, where parking was always an issue.

“Hang on . . . I’m just about to knock out this survey.”

She stared at him. “Seriously. You’re taking a survey? We need to be on the road now. Ten minutes ago, actually.”

“Not taking a survey. Creating one. Remember? Sallie approved that at our last planning meeting. She thought it was a great idea.”

“I don’t think she meant in place of working the actual events.”

He shot her an annoyed look and closed the program, then shut down his computer. “You don’t have to get snarky about it.”

“I wasn’t being snarky. You can create all the surveys you want, but if you’re slacking on the actual event, I don’t think you’re going to be very happy with the results of your surveys.”

He stuffed the thick logistics timeline notebook for their event into his bag and slung it over his shoulder. “Okay, I’m ready. Let’s go. Are you always this practical? Because that could get annoying really fast.”

She laughed. But speaking of annoying, he took the prize. “I just know who’s going to end up getting stuck with the clients you’re ignoring while you play with your stupid little surveys. Not to mention, if we’re late Sallie will have our heads.”

“Fine. Come on then. I’ll drive. I’m parked in back.” He strode past her and headed for the rear door.

She hurried back to her own cubicle and grabbed her things. When she got to Aaron’s car, he was tapping the steering wheel as if he’d been waiting on her forever.

She climbed in. “Ha ha. Very funny.”

“We have plenty of time, you know. Sallie always allows way too much lead time, and then you end up sitting there waiting for the organizers to show up before you can even do anything. Or worse, waiting for someone to come and unlock the venue.”

He was right, of course. But that didn’t make it appropriate for him to brush aside Sallie’s request about their arrival time. “So you’re making the rules now, is that it? Wow, I didn’t know you got a promotion.”

He stared at her. “Are you just trying to start a fight?”

“No, I—” She made a face. “I guess it just would have been nice if you’d informed me that you had no intention of doing what our boss asked.”

He matched her expression. “What is your deal? Are you mad at me about something?”

“No. I’m not mad. Please, drive.” She glared at him. Was she mad? She didn’t have any good reason to be. Not really. “It’s just frustrating when I’m trying to follow the rules and you’re off freelancing doing whatever you feel like, never mind what our boss instructed us to do.

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