In Sheep's Clothing by Mary Monroe

Author:Mary Monroe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2011-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 40

Most of the people I knew hated for Monday morning to roll around because they didn’t want to go back to work. I was glad to return to work that Monday morning after the trip to Reno. The only thing I didn’t look forward to at the office was Ann’s return, which was supposed to be the following week. I was surprised when she didn’t return as scheduled. Wendy and Pam didn’t know any more about Ann’s absence than I did. “I even asked Lupe and she hasn’t heard from Ann either,” Pam informed me.

No matter how big of a thorn Ann was in my side, I didn’t want anything else bad to happen to her. But the mugging that she had survived would seem like a walk in the park compared to some of the things that could have happened to her during her trip to Greece. With all of the current terrorist activity, we all had some concerns when it involved travel. It was an especially sensitive subject with me. There was not a day in my life when I didn’t think about how my mother had died. Being the victim of a terrorist attack was something that I would not have wished on my worst enemy.

Around nine-thirty that Monday morning, Mr. Rydell fired off another one of his red-flagged e-mails to the whole staff. He advised us all to meet him immediately in the reception area for an announcement he had to make.

One thing I had learned was, when you become part of the criminal element, and if you have a conscience, paranoia becomes part of your everyday routine. As soon as I heard about the impromptu meeting, I suspected the worst. I thought that somehow I’d been found out. My heart was beating a mile a minute as I stood by the side of my desk behind Lupe, wondering what was so important for Mr. Rydell to call us all together. Wendy stood next to me, breathing like a seal. Apparently, I was not the only paranoid member of the team. Wendy looked downright frightened and so did Pam, for that matter. The three of us remained silent as the reps mumbled among themselves. My mind was such a ball of confusion that I didn’t try that hard to listen to the muffled conversations around me. I was just alert enough to determine that the reps’ speculations had nothing to do with me. But that didn’t mean anything. None of us really knew why the meeting had been called.

As urgent as he’d made it sound, Mr. Rydell was the last to arrive. Looking like a white-haired penguin in his black suit, he waddled into the reception area from the elevator, huffing and puffing like he had taken the stairs. The reps stopped mumbling and suddenly everyone stood ramrod straight.

Mr. Rydell looked around the room, his gaze settling on me. I held my breath as his rubbery lips began to quiver. I didn’t know if other

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