Getting Down to Business by Nicolette Dane

Author:Nicolette Dane [Dane, Nicolette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-28T07:00:00+00:00

Josephine didn’t text me back for the rest of the day, despite a number of frantic texts from me imploring her to text or call as soon as she could, that I wasn’t sure what my phone had recorded but whatever it was it wasn’t true, that I desperately needed to speak to her to clear it all up. I thought back to my conversation with Walt about a thousand times, trying to figure out exactly what I had said. Funny thing, sometimes lies are hard to remember. You get so into them in the moment you’re telling them and then once they work, they just sort of disappear from your mind. But I knew the gist of what I said. And it wasn’t pretty.

Added onto what I said, I knew the way I said it was convincing. I’ve been lying since I could talk and you could even ask my mother about it. I’d lie to her face in a way that would have surely convinced her if a child’s lies weren’t so easily seen through. My lying got more refined as I grew up, however, and it served me well in the working world which only reinforced my reliance on doing it. And hell, I studied acting. Lying is like Acting 101. You don’t get to where I was without learning how to cover your ineptitude with beautiful little lies.

All I could think about was how I’d screwed up yet another relationship. And this time with a woman that I actually really liked. All those other girls, they were fine, and maybe my screw ups with them weren’t accidents. Maybe those were all subconsciously orchestrated to get me out of a situation I no longer wanted to be in. But this one, this was an accident. I didn’t want to lose Josephine over a lie I told my boss. And I certainly didn’t want PetNexus to suffer for my inability to just tell the truth. I could feel all the progress I’d made in the last few weeks leaking out of me like a punctured tire, only to be replaced with the familiar sting of anxiety and worry. Taking a deep breath, I stood up from my couch, dressed in my lounging clothes after a busy day of fretting at work, and stumbled into my kitchen to open a bottle of wine.

I easily downed my first glass of wine and then refilled. Taking up my glass from the small kitchen island and leaving the bottle there, I wandered back toward my living room, rolling my phone around in my palm, eager to feel the vibration, impatiently waiting for any sign from Josephine. The silence was killing me and all I could think of was the worst case scenario. She was done with me, she was pulling out of the investment with PetNexus, I was going to lose my job effective immediately, somehow I forgot to pay my mortgage last month and now I was late, I had contracted

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