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Timing
Copyright © 2010 by Mary Calmes
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For my mother who believed in grace
and for Elizabeth and Lynn for theirs.
Timing
1
I
T WAS
unfair of my boss to order me to go.
“I don’t understand why this is a big deal. We’re only talking
about the morning of one of the days. We’re not talking about your
entire––will you look at me, please?”
will
But I didn’t have time. I was sorting paperwork on my desk in
preparation for being away. I had different people doing different
things, and so I was making piles. “My best friend is getting married,
Knox. I don’t want to think about––
––”
“I need you to meet this woman, Stef. You’re the only one who
can close the deal, so you’re the one who’s going.”
goi
“I’ll go when I get back,” I responded absently, checking the
inbox of my internal e-mail, hoping he’d get the hint and just leave.
mail,
“Look at me.”
But I was so busy. There were things I had to finish before I could
leave and not worry. My assistant wa amazing, but I couldn’t leave her
was
everything. She’d kill me.
“Stefan.”
I lifted my eyes from my computer screen to meet his.
“That makes sense to you, does it? You’re going to fly to
Amarillo––”
“What?”
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