Still Waters... by Crysal V. Rhodes

Author:Crysal V. Rhodes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58571-666-1
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Bev’s plane had arrived at O’Hare Airport on time, and she was in a good mood when she walked into Freedom Financial Services.

“You sure are looking chipper,” Janice noted after greeting her boss with a hug. “I wish that I could be so calm about the possibility of losing millions.”

“It’s only money,” Bev quipped as the two of them headed down the hallway.

“How’s Dana doing?” Janice followed Bev into her office.

Bev had kept the office updated about her sister’s medical progress through Janice, who was her friend as well as her employee. She had been with Bev for over a decade. At sixty-six, Janice looked as though she were in her forties. As stylish and sophisticated as her employer, she was the height of efficiency and solely responsible for keeping the office running so smoothly. Bev didn’t know what she would do without her.

“She’s getting better, thank God.” Bev slipped into the white leather swivel chair behind her glass-top desk. “She’s talking a little bit more each day.”

“Does she remember what happened?” Janice took a seat in one of the fashionable chairs opposite the desk.

“All she knows at this point is that she’s waking up in a hospital. It’s going to take time, but we’re hopeful that she’ll be as good as new after some therapy.”

“I’m glad to hear it.”

The two women engaged in some small talk before getting down to the business that had brought Bev back to the office. Janice explained in detail the reasons that the client had expressed for wanting to withdraw his investment funds. Bev assessed the situation and went over a few strategic scenarios with Janice. A Plan A and Plan B were devised, and Bev spent the remainder of the day analyzing data and making telephone calls. By nightfall she had a solution to the dilemma that was causing her client concern. She made arrangements for lunch with him the next day to make her presentation. She was exhausted by the time the last call was made.

Janice stuck her head in the open office door. “Are you ready to go?” She was dropping Bev off at her Hyde Park home.

“Finally.” Bev turned the light off in her office and shut the door behind her. It wasn’t until she was following Janice down the hall toward the elevator doors that she remembered that she hadn’t called her mother or Ray to inform them of her arrival.

Checking her messages, she saw that she had missed calls from both. By the time that she and Janice had gone downstairs and climbed into Janice’s car, Bev had contacted her mother and her daughter. As Janice drove out of the parking garage and headed toward the Dan Ryan Highway, Bev called Ray.

“Hey there.” She couldn’t help smiling when he answered his cell phone.

“Hey there,” he echoed. Ray had been sitting in the kitchen using the laptop that he had brought with him and thinking about her. “Guess who’s been on my mind.”

“Hmmm, let me guess.”

“No need.” Ray

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