In the Unlikely Event...
“She scanned her call log. Lacey had tried to reach her four hundred and eleven times in a twenty-four-hour period.
“How many times an hour has she called you?” Gitana asked.
Chase took a calculator from the cubbyhole in the kitchen marked neatly with a laminated tag that read, “Math Implements” and did the math. “To be exact, 17.125 calls per hour.”
Gitana’s math skills were not impeded like those of Chase, whose right brain refused to perform any task that involved numbers—a flashback to her a...lgebra days where the “x” and the “y” thingies were a constant torture. She said, “Wow, that’s four hundred and eleven calls per day.” She didn’t need a calculator.
“According to the call log some were in the middle of the night,” Chase said. She could envision Lacey sitting in her office steaming mad and dialing away—a diabolic look on her scowling face—with Chino sitting off in the shadows smoking a cigar…even though smoking was banned at the Institute.MoreLess
“How many times an hour has she called you?” Gitana asked.
Chase took a calculator from the cubbyhole in the kitchen marked neatly with a laminated tag that read, “Math Implements” and did the math. “To be exact, 17.125 calls per hour.”
Gitana’s math skills were not impeded like those of Chase, whose right brain refused to perform any task that involved numbers—a flashback to her a...lgebra days where the “x” and the “y” thingies were a constant torture. She said, “Wow, that’s four hundred and eleven calls per day.” She didn’t need a calculator.
“According to the call log some were in the middle of the night,” Chase said. She could envision Lacey sitting in her office steaming mad and dialing away—a diabolic look on her scowling face—with Chino sitting off in the shadows smoking a cigar…even though smoking was banned at the Institute.MoreLess
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