Final Option by Hartzmark Gini

Author:Hartzmark, Gini [Hartzmark, Gini]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

No one who had their shit together would be on the phone an hour and fifteen minutes before the Arthritis Foundation Benefit while a saleswoman at Neiman Marcus described all the evening gowns she had in size ten. Leon, one of the mail clerks, had already been dispatched in a taxi with my credit card and instructions to pick up my selection, knowing that there was no way I would be able to get to Hyde Park, change, and get to the party in time. I was beginning to think Cheryl might have a point.

I tended to other business until Leon appeared with two dresses, each in a plastic shroud, and a small shopping bag with a pair of Stewart Weitzman black satin pumps. I locked the door behind him, pulled the shades and, with a glance at the time, began to shed my suit.

The dresses were pretty, though definitely more glamorous than I usually wore. One was emerald green, with long sleeves and a gored skirt, but the back plunged too low. The other one was midnight blue and seemed more promising. I slipped it on. It was a slim, fitted gown with a sweetheart neck, from which a tiny shower of translucent beads flowed into rivulets down the body of the dress. I examined my reflection in the dim and narrow mirror that hung inside the door of my office closet and saw at once what always greeted my mother’s disappointed eye.

The dress was lovely, but it was worn by a slightly frazzled corporate attorney—a woman who’d had too little sleep and was wearing too little makeup. With a sigh of resignation I pulled the hairpins out of my French twist, bent at the waist like my nanny taught me, and gave my hair a hard brushing. Then I pinned it back up, rummaged in my desk for mascara and lipstick. Not finding any, I raided Cheryl’s drawer and found her makeup bag. Then, with cosmetic first-aid accomplished, I stuck my tongue out at myself in the mirror and headed out the door, only twenty minutes late.

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