Marshmallows for Breakfast by Dorothy Koomson
Author:Dorothy Koomson [Koomson, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-440-33833-8
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2007-07-24T16:00:00+00:00
SPANISH OMELETTE
CHAPTER 23
Oh, Kendra, there's a message for you,” Janene said to me.
She was using her normal voice. The one with which she spoke to Gabrielle and Teri. It immediately made me suspicious. It'd been an age since we'd gone camping and her silent threat to get me back hadn't materialized.
“Your phones rang when you were in the loo so I took a message. Forgot to give it to you.” I'd been to the loo over an hour ago. It was probably an important client who expected to be called back within fifteen minutes. This was her revenge, trying to lose me business.
She came across the office, her flat, beady eyes not receiving the message that her face was “smiling” at me. She handed me the note.
Mrs. Chelner, she'd written, along with a mobile number. She'd also printed URGENT, and carefully scored under it three times. She cocked her eyebrow a fraction as she waited for me to fall apart. To rip the phone from its cradle and dial frantically. Our business worked on maintaining good relationships and running an efficient service. Either this person needed a temp quickly or the temp they had wasn't working out. Whatever the situation, they were not going to be impressed by an unreturned phone call. Bitch.
“Thanks for that,” I said smiling sweetly and placing the yellow square on the desk. No way was I giving her the satisfaction of being riled about this. I'd probably already lost the business, wasn't going to add to my distress by giving Janene even a splinter of pleasure.
Gritting her teeth, unimpressed—veritably peeved—that she hadn't managed to get a rise out of me, she turned on her LK Bennett heels and stalked back to her desk. Gabrielle was monitoring all of this from her desk, even though to the outside world she was still typing away on her computer. If she was honest—as she had been with me once—she wasn't particularly enamoured with Janene, but she wanted to give the girl a chance. She thought that with understanding and training, she could mold Janene into a decent worker—the irony of course being that Gabrielle thought I was queen of the lost cause. Teri was staring open-mouthed at Janene's audacity. She had confessed to me that she didn't like Janene, but did her best to get on with her so as not to upset the office dynamic. We all, in our own ways, pandered to Janene's bad behavior like overindulgent parents pandered to a brat for a quiet life. That annoyed me more than I cared to admit to anyone, myself included. I hated people getting away with bad behavior.
Mrs. Chelner. I groped around my memory to place her. The name seemed familiar, but the company wasn't immediately coming to mind. As I ransacked my brain, what Janene had said replayed itself in my head.
“Did you say my phones rang?” I asked her.
“Yeah,” Janene said. “Your mobile kept ringing so I turned it off. It's in your top drawer.”
I will not let you get to me, I thought at her, because that is what you want.
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