The Problem with Perfect by Megan Mayfair

Author:Megan Mayfair [Mayfair, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crooked Cat Books
Published: 2019-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Marigold

The question is…would I even make these smoothies? Do I even like smoothies?

Marigold looked at the text message that had come in from her brother and responded. How would I know? Don’t you know what you like?

I barely know my own name anymore. I’ve had four hours sleep in two days.

Marigold let out a pffft. Join the club, brother. Ask Amelia what you like.

She says I don’t, came the response.

Good thing there was one person with a brain in that household. Question answered, she typed back.

But it looks good. It says that it keeps the core vitamins in there.

For goodness sake. Core vitamins? What was he turning into? Much more time and she wouldn’t recognise him at all. She shook her head as she replied to his message. Since when do you care about vitamins?

Since I’ve lived in a house with kids. Do you know how many colds and bugs they bring home from that damned school? I should hose them off with disinfectant in the front yard before they come in the house. Run them through a sheep dip.

She actually let out a laugh at that. She’d never given too much thought to children bringing home various bugs and colds from school or kindergarten or other places, but yes, she supposed they would.

She and Julian had loosely discussed children. They both wanted them but it was ‘on the agenda’. They’d never sat down and given it much thought, but it had crossed her mind several times as to how it might work with their busy careers. Not to mention the fact that she didn’t feel that maternal ache.

Julian hadn’t raised the issue in a while, and neither had she. More evidence he was planning to get out? You didn’t exactly start a family with someone who you were thinking of leaving, that was for sure.

***

The next morning she was making a cup of tea when a text from Kendall came in. I’m in Byron Bay, but Sarah from the Finance department says the Adelaide deal is being called off.

What!?! Marigold texted back. Sarah? She shut her eyes trying to visualise the Finance department before the flash of a woman with red hair came up in her memory. She’d usually use her directory, but her access had been blocked, so she rang the switchboard of D-Line and put her fingers around her nose to disguise her voice to something that would match her favourite fake name in case the receptionist had been instructed to not put her through to anyone. “Hello, it’s Jocelyn Adams here, may I speak to Sarah in the Finance team?”

“Sarah? Do you have a surname?” the receptionist asked.

“No, I’m sorry. Sarah, she has red hair.”

The receptionist gave a disapproving sigh but a few clicking noises followed that indicated she was putting ‘Jocelyn’ through.

“Hello, this is Sarah.”

“Sarah, it’s Marigold Doyle. I’m hearing the Adelaide deal is in trouble. What’s happening?”

“Err,” Sarah hesitated. “Perhaps you’d best speak to Peter about that.”

“I’m talking to you about it. What’s happening?”

“They’ve accused us of low-balling them.

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