The Falling Series by Heather B Moore

Author:Heather B Moore [Moore, Heather B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Christian Romance, clean and wholesome romance, Women's Fiction, Romantic Comedy
Publisher: Mirror Press
Published: 2018-12-27T22:00:00+00:00

Maria smoothed the striped skirt over her hips, wondering if the pattern was too bold for the employee meeting that morning. The company emails about the new dress policies had been quite clear, and over the past couple of weeks she’d worn less color and fewer accessories and tried to tone down her colorful and patterned wardrobe. But she wasn’t about to purchase a new wardrobe for a job she’d been working at for nearly a year. Successfully, she might add.

She bypassed her favorite silver hoop earrings and picked up the gold love knots that were almost too small to see. Then she twisted back her dark wavy hair and added a plain black clip. There. Her image in the mirror said she was conservative, didn’t it? She’d even chosen a pale pink lipstick versus her usual candy red.

Maria grabbed her purse and keys and phone and headed out of her apartment in a trendy community on the edge of Seattle. The drive wasn’t far in miles, but Seattle traffic could be horrible.

Her phone notified her of a series of text messages coming through from her best friends, Sydney and June. The three of them had graduated from high school together and had been college roommates at Washington University. Now they were spread out along the West Coast at their various jobs. Twice a year, they got together for girls-only weekends.

Good luck this morning, Sydney had texted.

Update us after the meeting, June added.

Maria worked for a small Internet marketing firm, which had recently been acquired by a larger company. That was when the emails had started coming in with all the new company policies, sent out by their new manager, Walker Harris, whom they all would meet this morning for the first time. The new company policies included that lunch was restricted to forty-five minutes; quarterly reports were now monthly reports; no plants or other organic matter was allowed (which she planned to fight); and everyone was expected to work one Saturday a month.

The new dress code had been most surprising to Maria. She spent most of her time on the computer anyway, so what did it matter what she wore to the office? The gray carpet, pale walls, and brown chairs were all so drab. Her cubical looked like an oasis in the middle of the desert with her colorful herbal pots and her collection of birdhouses. She kept only a few small ones in her cubical. Some of them she’d built and painted; others she’d found at thrift stores.

Her co-workers had even gone so far as to give her a birdhouse on her last birthday, and she’d loved it. But with the new company policies, she’d have to get rid of all of it. Maria typed a quick reply to her friends before starting to drive, then flipped down the mirror and decided to go with the red lipstick after all. She dug out a tube from her purse and lathered on the dark red color. Perfect.

She turned up the radio as she drove to the office.

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