A Special Relationship by Yvonne Thomas

Author:Yvonne Thomas [Thomas, Yvonne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: AUSTIN BROOK PUBLISHING
Published: 2008-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Two hours later and Carrie was walking slowly across the polished floors of the lobby inside of the Dyson corporate building. She was wearing jeans, a cotton, frill-line blouse, and her loafers amongst the business suits and dress shoes that swirled even faster around her. But she wasn’t intimidated at all. She had phoned Dyson five times asking to speak with Robert Kincaid and she was denied access to him each and every time. Now she was determined. That cheap pocketbook that still sat in his truck may not have meant a thing to them, but it meant everything to her.

She took the elevator to the top floor where she knew Robert’s office was located. She looked around, hoping to remember the maze that led to his office, but a security guard standing at the massive reception desk began looking at her as if he just knew she didn’t belong there. He’d been laughing and talking with the receptionist that sat behind the big desk when Carrie first stepped off of the elevator, but now they both were looking at her.

“May I help you?” the receptionist finally asked as Carrie walked up to the desk.

“Yes, ma’am,” Carrie said. “I’m here to see Robert Kincaid.”

“Oh,” the receptionist said, picking up her desk phone immediately and looking at Carrie with more respect. “I’ll tell his secretary that you’ve arrived, ma’am. May I ask your name, please?”

“Carrie Banks, but she wouldn’t. . . I mean, I don’t have an appointment.”

The security guard smiled and then laughed. The receptionist sat the phone back down. “If you don’t have an appointment,” she said, “what sort of business would you have with Mr. Kincaid?”

Carrie looked from the receptionist to the smiling guard and then back to the receptionist. They wouldn’t understand if she told them. “It’s private,” she said.

“Yeah, I’m sure it is,” the receptionist replied. “And that’s why I can’t help you. Mr. Kincaid doesn’t take walk-ins.”

The guard let out a big laugh then. Carrie glanced at him angrily. “I need to see him,” she said to the receptionist. “If somebody would just tell him I’m here he’ll see me.”

“Girl, do you know who Robert Kincaid even is?” the guard asked her, amazed at Carrie’s boldness.

“Yes, I know who he is.”

“He’s the man around here. You know you can’t just go running in there to see him, you know better than that!”

Carrie sighed in exasperation. She could just see her sister now, tossing her clothes out onto those filthy streets when twelve o’clock arrived and she didn’t have that rent money in her hands. What in the world was she going to do then? Where was she going to live? At a homeless shelter? On the streets? Would she be forced to go back to Georgia where she didn’t really have a home there either? And how was she going to get to Georgia with no money?

She looked at the receptionist and guard again. They didn’t understand. “Look,” she said, trying desperately to impress upon

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