Heather Graham by Hold Close the Memory

Author:Hold Close the Memory
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

KIM HAD BARELY SAID hello to Si-Co Advertising’s sunny young receptionist before Lacey Hart, one of the staff photographers, almost attacked her. “Kim, I have to talk to you. Please! Right now!”

Kim glanced at Lacey with startled surprise, frowned, and nodded. “Come on into my office.”

Her office was a cubicle but comfortable. The walls were covered with pictures and posters, Si-Co ads. She had personally taken a couple of advertising awards over the years, and those two were in frames on the wall. Her desk was small, and there were no lounges or couches, just one extra chair before the small desk. Lacey threw herself into it.

Kim was further surprised to see that Lacey was close to tears. “They gave me the hams last week!” she exclaimed as Kim sat down with a cup of muddy office coffee. “I can’t do it, Kim. I just can’t do it. I can’t work with David Harris!”

Kim lifted a brow slightly, although it was certainly no great surprise to learn that another photographer was having a problem with David. Lacey was young and very pretty, and she was also married.

“What happened?” Kim asked.

Lacey blushed and looked down at her nails. She stumbled for words for a moment and then looked Kim straight in the eye. “I don’t know, Kim, I guess I created half of this myself awhile ago. I—I—” Lacey drew a deep breath and then started talking in a rush. “About six months ago David started showing an interest in me. Bob—my husband—you know Bob, don’t you, Kim?”

“Yes, Lacey, I know your husband,” Kim said, implying that she should get on with her story. Bob Hart was an attractive young man, well accepted at the office parties he had been to for Christmas and New Year’s.

“Bob and I were having problems at the time. Anyway, I guess I was flattered by David. Aggravated and bored at home. I, uh, I started seeing David.”

“Oh?” Kim said the word uncondemningly; she knew David Harris’s ability to be charming.

Lacey was turning a miserable-looking shade of beet red. “Bob and I made it up, and I told David I couldn’t see him again. The funny thing is, Kim, I don’t think he really cared. I knew he was seeing other women besides me at the time, but I guess it was just because I broke it off with him first—”

“So what happened last Monday?” Kim asked.

“Oh, everything, Kim! He kept telling me I had the wrong light, the wrong film, the wrong angles. He embarrassed me to death in front of the Lean Meat people. And he made me so nervous, Kim, that the pictures did come out terrible! They all have to be shot again. Oh, Kim, I can’t do it! I just can’t spend another day in there with him criticizing me again.”

“Okay, Lacey,” Kim murmured, “I have to speak with Mr. Simms, and then I’ll go see Harris. Have we got a ham to reshoot?”

A smile of gratitude and relief was spreading across Lacey’s face.

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