Secretary of the City by Lee Navlen

Author:Lee Navlen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2023-09-26T13:14:56+00:00

Chapter 24

Saturday, March 11, 2023

1:30 PM

From: The Desk of Liz White

“I had a feeling it might be her.” Henry said as he attempted to reassure himself that he was still master of his universe.

I knew he was shaken. Henry wasn’t dumb, far from it, but he rarely knew what was going on around him; or more accurately, he had little interest in knowing what was going on around him. Keeping track of all that was my job.

“Do you think Leighton was having a fling with the guy?”

Sure, she might have been and her emails seem to suggest it. Although in my 20 years with Leighton, she had pulled some rather substantial bullshit, as far as I could tell she had remained loyal to Henry and there was even a great deal of love between the two of them.

“I don’t know Henry. I’m sure it was platonic, two old friends.”

“Then, why didn’t she tell me?” he asked sounding like a lost child looking for his mother.

“Henry, maybe ...”

He cut me off.

“I know, she didn’t want me to worry about her flying in a small plane, which I would have. I don’t like them. Did I tell you about the time I went skydiving?”

He had, many times. Years earlier, in the Bahamas. He met up with an old friend from his Harvard days. They smoked some marijuana, which Henry rarely did, and then decided to go skydiving. Henry figured between training and what not, he’d be back to normal mentally before the jump but this was the Bahamas we’re talking about. They fitted him with a suit, introduced him to his tandem partner and some 45 minutes after getting good and stoned, he was falling from a height of 16,000 feet. Henry said it was the dumbest and most terrifying ordeal of his life.

I reminded Henry that his skydiving adventure was a scary time but there was nothing wrong with the plane. After giving it some thought, he agreed that his skydiving story wasn’t relevant.

I sent Henry back into the airport and advised him to wait at the Delta Club where I would have Leighton meet him. Meanwhile, I booked them two first class seats to Philadelphia since the New York flights were sold out. I then arranged a car to drive them back into Manhattan.

I called Leighton with the flight details. Of course, she was not happy.

“Philadelphia??? No to Philadelphia! I want to go to New York! Have you seen the news? I need to get home!”

I explained the situation. It was Saturday, there were only a certain number of flights each day to the various cities around the world. It was the reason the airlines recommended advanced reservations but to Leighton the airline business may as well have been her subway, always running, 24/7.

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