Gorilla Dating by Kristen Ethridge

Author:Kristen Ethridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laurel Lock Publishing

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“Chimps supplement their diets with meat, such as young antelopes or goats. Their most frequent victims, however, are other primates such as young baboons, colobus monkeys, and blue monkeys.”

--The African Wildlife Foundation, www.awf.org

Tuesday mornings after a Monday holiday are even more brutal than regular starts to the workweek.

On the way to work, I cruise through a coffee shop drive-through and grab the largest, most extreme coffee I can order off the menu. I’m still on Cielo Blanco time and I need all the help I can get to make my blood start flowing and get my synapses firing.

I’m thankful that no one stops me as I make my way to my cubicle. The morning routine I’ve devised rarely changes. First, I unlock my laptop from its relative safety in the filing cabinet, slide it into the docking station and power the system up, sit down and check voicemail while the computer runs through the boot-up process. There are already two messages on my phone this morning. Both are from reporters, but luckily neither of them is on deadline, so I can wait a few minutes before returning those calls.

Once my laptop is fully operational, I log into my e-mail and scroll through the messages. As it has just been a holiday weekend, the electronic correspondence load is thankfully light. There are two e-mails that just came in shortly before I sat down, however. One is from Jack and the other appears to be a reply from Cindy.

Just seeing Jack’s e-mail address on my screen makes me smile. Unfortunately, seeing Jack’s e-mail address on my screen also makes me think about how much I don’t want the Chimps in the office finding out about my return trip to the ranch. Although we discussed the whole idea of how to handle things a little bit while hanging out yesterday, we were unable to draw a definite conclusion.

The only two things we decided were: first, we will try to keep everything on the down-low throughout the zoo project, but second, we cannot lie to people about it.

Jack and I will be treading carefully across a tightrope, metaphorically speaking, for the next three weeks. There will be much collaboration between our respective offices during the next few weeks as the Capital of Texas Zoo prepares to open. And if I get butterflies in my stomach just by seeing Jack’s name on one single work-related e-mail, well… any girl out there knows the trouble I’m in for.

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