Fire Me! by Libby Malin

Author:Libby Malin [Malin, Libby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Istoria Books
Published: 2018-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

From Mitch Burnham’s book Fair Play, Fair Pay:

Your employees aren’t your family. They’re not going to stick with you through good times, let alone bad ones. Don’t think being a good boss means being Gandhi. It means becoming a benevolent dictator.

1:47 p.m.

They should be back at the office. Just because she was on the path to destruction didn’t mean she should bring Ken down with her. He’d glanced at his watch twice when he thought Anne wasn’t looking. She knew she should suggest leaving, but she was feeling… like paradise. Like she had felt as a girl wandering the Renwick gallery with her friends. His sandalwood scent, their shared appreciation for that particular gallery, the warmth of his concern for her—she hadn’t felt so comfortable in a long time. The only cloud in this sunny hour had been his questions about California. After the call from Melanie at St. Bart’s, Anne was feeling less sanguine about her new job.

Well, like feisty Scarlett O’Hara, Anne just couldn’t think about that right now. She’d think about it tomorrow. At the moment, she had to make sure Ken got back to the office before he was missed. She’d think of other things to do to draw negative attention to herself. At least her breath was heavily scented with alcohol.

He insisted on treating her, and after they left the restaurant, Ken looked for a cab, telling her it was best if they got back quickly.

She was beginning to think that they were going to be really late and her prank was at the expense of getting Ken in trouble, when her phone buzzed. Glancing at the ID, she saw it was her mother, and she held up a finger to Ken to indicate she needed to take it. She didn’t like ignoring her mother’s calls.

“Hey, honey,” her mother’s chipper voice said over the line. “You busy?”

“Sort of.” She had lots of work to mess up, after all. And she didn’t want to ignore Ken, who was searching for a taxi beside her as she talked.

“Well, I won’t keep you. I was just sitting here with Carla, and I’d like to schedule a little dinner with Jack and Marie and you and Rob and her and Don. How about next weekend, say, Saturday night?”

Sitting there with Carla? Carla was Anne’s friend from high school. Sure, she lived with her husband, Don, and baby girl just a block from Anne’s mom, but since when did Carla show up at the Wyatt house on a weekday? Since when did she become…like a daughter who just drops by any time uninvited? The she heard the gurgling of a baby in the background. Aha—since then. Since Carla had brought into the world this precious little bundle of joy her mother could coo over, which was what she was doing now as she waited for Anne to answer.

But Anne had a fog of confusion and guilt to get through first. She still hadn’t told her mother about Jack’s deployment being moved up.

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