Quiver by Tobsha Learner

Author:Tobsha Learner [Learner, Tobsha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781854714244
Publisher: Claremont
Published: 1996-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Nothing about her appearance the next day indicated any emotional change. She had pulled her hair back into a severe knot, as if to punish herself for the emotional laxity of the night before. She had made up her mind that utter immersion in her work was the only cure for any ridiculous romantic notions she might have indulged in. She was sure that she would never see Mischa again, that his interest in her was merely that of a lonely migrant searching for an intellectual companion, and nothing to do with desire or the potential of a love affair.

The only thing that was difficult to negotiate was a route around the flower stall. This morning she’d walked an extra block to the office and had used the back entrance. The low hum of the computers and the constant sound of the phones and fax machines obliterated the possibility of debating internally on what could have been a great love affair, or at least one night of bliss. She adjusted the silk scarf around her neck and walked briskly up to her desk. Already there were four faxes from Tokyo and a couple of messages from her various clients.

She booted up her screen and checked out the overnight figures for the Nikkei. An inner voice kept saying gold, gold. Several snippets of information were being pieced together in her brain. Other bankers credited her with intuition, a natural hunch about what to buy and when to sell, but there was nothing magical or mysterious about Deidre’s ability to second-guess the marketplace. It was the fastidious collection of information and the knack of fitting it all together in a lateral jigsaw that made her an exceptional banker. Why she hadn’t been promoted was something her colleagues didn’t like to speculate on, knowing that it was only her gender that kept her out of the inner sanctum. She was on a hundred and fifty thousand a year, but what she made the bank was over fifty times that amount.

She looked up gold. Stocks were down on all the major markets, but the idea kept gnawing at her. There was a remark she’d overheard, that article about new mining technology in New Scientist, a fall in the Hang Seng, a mine in Western Australia that had been using the techniques for a least a year. Finally, that Gutnick tip she’d had from one of her clients. Coles-Myer needed to invest a hundred thousand; she could start with them. If she bought now while the prices were low she could come out on top, perhaps sooner than people suspected.

Fifteen minutes later she was standing in the office of Edward Short, her immediate superior and CEO of the investment branch of the bank. A balding man in his late fifties, Edward had recently left his wife of twenty-five years to marry his secretary, fifteen years his junior. He hated Deidre. He found her manner inherently arrogant, but the fact that she never bothered to socialize with the other bankers also made it difficult for him to muster up enthusiasm for her.

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