In the Works by Val Brown

Author:Val Brown [Brown, Val]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780982285848
Publisher: Blue Feather Books
Published: 2011-11-04T07:00:00+00:00

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Rodney walked by the door to Adehm’s office and stopped dead in his tracks. Adehm had left for lunch forty-five minutes earlier, and now he was sure someone was in her office. Whoever it was, he wasn’t being very discreet. The noise he was making was a dead giveaway to his presence. Leaning in the door, he saw something that deeply startled him.

“Don’t move,” he said. “I’m calling security. I don’t know who you are, but this feeble attempt to impersonate my boss isn’t going to work.”

Adehm swallowed another bite of her sandwich and took a sip of water from the bottle on her desk. “Want to tell me what you’re talking about, or should I just have you committed immediately and bypass the lengthy explanation?”

Rodney circled the desk, eyeing Adehm suspiciously. “Oh, it’s a clever disguise, I’ll grant you that, but you aren’t Adehm Trent. Aha! Even more proof,” he said, pointing to the computer screen she had been looking at.

“You need serious medication. You’re crazy.” Adehm leaned back in her chair and regarded her assistant.

“Crazy like a fox. Let me present a little evidence to you, Miss Whoever-You-Are. First, Adehm Trent does two things during her lunch hour. She either works in the office or she works out of the office. She does not surf the Net.” He gestured at the screen of Adehm’s computer that was displaying something not remotely work related. “Nightclubs. The real Adehm Trent has no interest in such things.”

Adehm dropped the lid of her laptop computer, belatedly shielding it from Rodney’s view.

“Adehm Trent also has no time for lunch,” Rodney continued. “I bet you think this is a sandwich,” he said, pointing to her meal. “You’d be wrong if you did. It’s an obvious error in your masquerade. Nutrition in the middle of a workday is not very Adehm-esque.”

“Okay, you caught me enjoying a meal at lunchtime and not working while consuming it. That’s a pretty weak case, Perry Mason.”

Rodney stopped his circling at the front of Adehm’s desk, a triumphant smile on his face. “You were humming, madam,” he said, crossing his arms.

“I was?” Adehm asked, looking genuinely perplexed. She took the last bite of her sandwich. “You know, you’re right. I think I was humming. That’s not usual for me. Maybe I’m not who I think I am.” She patted her own shoulder and down her arm. “And yet I seem to be. What do you make of it?”

“You’ve been different since you came back to Detroit. There’s something in California that’s been good for you.”

“It’s not a something. It’s a someone.”

Rodney uncrossed his arms and took his usual seat next to Adehm’s desk. “It’s the engineer, isn’t it?”

“Yeah. How did you guess?”

“You’re at the same hotel, your expense account receipts show meals for two, you’re in the same office, and when I suggested she get removed from the project, you nearly snapped my head off long distance. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to put the facts together.”

“I suppose not.

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