Next Year I'll be Perfect by Kilmartin Laura

Author:Kilmartin, Laura [Kilmartin, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: azw, mobi
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
Published: 2012-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

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Bzzzzzzzzz.

I raised my head from the edge of my desk where it had collapsed in a pathetic heap several minutes earlier, and glared at the office intercom.

“What is it Gloria?” I picked up the phone, failing to hide my irritation.

“Two things.” She replied in her crisp, efficient manner. “First, you have a delivery at the front desk that you need to pick up. Second, you will not take that snippy tone with me in the future.”

“Sorry.” I said, meaning it. It wasn't fair to take out my bad mood on anyone but the person responsible for it.

That would be me.

My next words were in a much friendlier tone. “Can you bring my delivery down to my office?”

“So you can continue to hide in there like you have all day? No, dear, I cannot.”

I took great offense to Gloria's classification of my behavior. I wasn't hiding. Just because it was the Monday following my date with Morgan and I had gotten in early, shut my office door and not emerged for a coffee or bathroom break in nearly five hours? I wasn't hiding.

I was focused. Very, very focused.

“Morgan just left for lunch.” Gloria informed me, once again astounding me with her amazing deductive skills.

Realizing I really could use a fresh cup of coffee…and really needed to pee…, I turned off the intercom and walked down to the reception area where I was surprised to find a beautiful arrangement of yellow tulips, a small card with my name on it tucked neatly in the center.

Perhaps I was overreacting, I thought with a smile as I reached for the card. Sure the last five minutes of our date had been horrible, but maybe Morgan was willing to grade the entire evening on a bell curve, ignoring the fact I had flunked the final exam.

“They're lovely, aren't they?” Gloria remarked. “Who are they from?”

I opened the card and found a neatly typed message.

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