Trust in Truth: A Sapphic Christmas Novella by Banting Emily

Author:Banting, Emily
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781915157027
Publisher: Sapphfic Publishing
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

As Christmas Eve fell on a Friday, it seemed everyone had treated it as any other Friday and come into work. Anna particularly had a lot of work to finish up, partly because most of the suppliers for the New Year’s Eve event were closed over Christmas.

She had made a point of phoning them all to go over arrival times and confirm their requirements for the site. The signage company wouldn’t be installing the barn signs until the morning of the event, which was adding to her stress level. She checked and rechecked the quotes to make sure everything was correct.

Her hand instinctively reached into the tub of chocolates that sat between the desks but withdrew as she found the bottom of it. She picked it up and investigated it. There was only a handful left, none of which she liked. She never understood why coconut had anything to do with chocolate; they just didn’t work together.

She looked over to Carrie. “Please tell me you ate most of these.”

“Sadly not,” Carrie replied without even looking up.

Anna watched a grin spread across her face. “Why are you even here today? Don’t you have the arms of a loving family waiting for you at home?”

Carrie looked up and pulled her lips to one side. “The boys are home from university, and neither of them thought to bring their televisions home.”

“Oh, dear.” Anna knew exactly what that meant.

“Hmmm. I’ve had to create them a rota, a rota for two grown men to share our television so they can play their PlayStations without arguing. I have never been more pleased to be at work on Christmas Eve.”

Anna couldn’t contain her laughter, and despite Carrie’s seriousness, even she had to join in at the ridiculousness of it.

“What are you still doing here?” Carrie asked. “Are you not seeing your dad today?”

“I’m waiting for the gazebos to be delivered before I head off.”

Anna clicked refresh on the tracking website to see how far away the driver was. It was parcel 220 of 350 to be delivered that day. How anyone delivered 350 parcels in a day she would never know. It said they were currently delivering parcel 215 of 350.

She’d made a mental note for future events that non-perishables should be delivered within two weeks of the event date and to never arrange an event for New Year again. Although she had organised many events, she hadn’t appreciated that the countryside was a little different. She could get anything she wanted in the city in an instant.

If she was to keep the job, future events would, she hoped, be less stressful. She wouldn’t be organising them around a building site for a start, whilst trying to advertise said building site to the event attendees.

With gazebos finally delivered and checked, she took the delivery note to Katherine to reconcile her purchases. She stood at the threshold of the office and watched as Margaret leaned over Katherine’s desk to point at the laptop screen. With her other

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