Glass Ceilings by Alicia Hope

Author:Alicia Hope [Hope, Alicia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, C429, Extratorrents, Kat, Chick-Lit
ISBN: 9781478232025
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

The day ended well, after all, despite the incident with Kerry. As soon as Verity got home, she poured herself a drink and took it into the garden, where she could sit and enjoy the setting sun’s last rays. Three Bells Jack followed her enthusiastically, jumping onto her lap and waving his tail under her nose as she sat drinking her wine. And later, while she busied herself in the kitchen preparing dinner, he wound his lithe tabby body around her legs, purring loudly. She opened a can of his favourite cat food and filled a clean bowl sporting the initials ‘TBJ’, surrounded by love hearts. Claire had laughed when Verity bought it, declaring it a wussy bowl for a boy cat, but Jack didn’t care as long as it was regularly filled.

She called him over for his dinner, and then put on a Nora Jones CD and hummed along to it while char-grilling slivers of Haloumi cheese. She drizzled olive oil and lemon juice over them and made a garden salad accompaniment, and then carried her meal over to the table. She glanced over at Jack as she sat down. He was sitting beside his bowl, cleaning behind his ears as though he’d finished eating. But he’d hardly touched his food. Verity frowned. It was very unlike him to have an unfinished, not-licked-clean bowl every evening. Was he unwell? He certainly didn’t look it, quite the opposite in fact.

‘Aren’t you hungry tonight, mate?’

He graced her with a feline grin before carrying on with his grooming.

She shrugged. That’s cats for you.

Later, curled on the lounge with Jack’s warm, purring body beside her, Verity stroked his velvety grey head and tried to read, but her mind wouldn’t shut off. The past few days’ pressures–Royce’s betrayal and insulting condescension, the conflict with Reardon, Kerry’s behaviour, the impending EC meeting–kept going around and around in her head. The company’s livelihood and that of all its stakeholders was like an ever-present entity, resting heavily on her shoulders and breathing down her neck.

If only I had someone here to talk things over with, someone whose intelligence and strength I could draw on....

But she shut down that thought as soon as it emerged.

No point thinking like that. When I did have someone, he was no help in that regard anyway ... and now I’m on my own, and happier for it. Dwelling on what could’ve been never helps anyone.

Eventually realising she’d read the same paragraph three times and still hadn’t taken it in, Verity gave up trying and prepared for bed. A soak in a perfume-oiled bath helped her relax. She stepped out and dried herself with a fluffy bath sheet, before pulling on her soft cotton pyjamas. She padded over to the bed and stretched out on it, looking through the sheer curtains at the moonlight on the ocean. The curtains twitched as a sea breeze wafted through the bedroom, caressing her with gentle fingers of air as it passed. The bedclothes surrounding her smelled comfortingly of baby powder, soap, and sleep.

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