Never Mind The Botox: Rachel by Penny Avis

Author:Penny Avis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 9781780889214, Never Mind the Botox: Rachel, Penny Avis and Joanna Berry, Matador
ISBN: 9781780889214
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Chapter 15

For a few moments when Rachel first woke up, she felt quite happy. She wriggled around, enjoying the warmth and familiarity of her bed, and looked at the alarm clock. Time to get up.

Then, as the realisation of what the day ahead would be like came into focus, Rachel felt quite sick. Butterflies leapt around in her stomach like they’d suddenly grown kangaroo legs. She looked at the space next to her in the large double bed and her mind immediately turned to Harry. She buried her face in her pillow. God, she missed him already.

After a few minutes her tears turned to irritation at the impact he was able to have on her, and Rachel forced herself to get up and get ready for work.

On the way to the office she texted Rosa to say that she had an urgent meeting with Carl, she would be in mid-morning and could they get on with the presentation. Rachel knew they’d be somewhat alarmed by her having an urgent meeting they knew nothing about, but there was nothing she could do about it. In her week from hell diary, Carl had to be first. She would tell Rosa and AJ later.

Rachel sat staring at the neatly written notes Shali had written to help her prepare for the meeting. Just below ‘Tell him the total truth’, Shali had written ‘Good luck, mate’ and drawn a smiley face next to it. Rachel smiled to herself and then felt a bit ashamed of how she’d been treating Shali, blaming her for the whole Rowan incident. Maybe she had overreacted. Shali had been a total star last night.

As soon as she arrived in the office, she went to see Carl’s secretary.

‘I need to see him urgently this morning, as soon as possible. Can you sort something out?’ she asked as Carl’s PA peered unhopefully at her computer.

‘He has appointments until lunchtime so the earliest you can see him would be about one o’ clock,’ replied the PA rather haughtily.

Rachel peered over her shoulder and looked at the entries in his diary.

‘He’s doing an appraisal first thing − can’t you move that? This is very important; it’s about the Beau Street project. Please, Margaret.’

‘Stop looking at his diary; it’s private,’ said Margaret, and then seemed to notice Rachel’s pale and worried expression. ‘Look, I’ll see what I can do. Give me ten minutes.’

Margaret rang Rachel a few minutes later.

‘He’ll see you now, and by the way, he wasn’t best pleased, just so you know.’

Great, annoyed before we start, thought Rachel. She headed to Carl’s office, knocked on the door and went in.

‘Right, yes, what is it, Rachel? Margaret said you needed to see me urgently. I thought everything was going fine on Beau Street?’

Rachel looked at his furrowed brow as he glared at her and almost lost her nerve. Her voice shook slightly as she spoke. ‘There’s an issue at Beau Street that I need to discuss with you,’ she said.

‘What sort of issue?’ Carl asked.

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