It Had to Be You
“The Buick Park Avenue left the highway for a two-lane service road marked with a blue and white wooden sign that read Stars Drive. Annette Miles, the driver who had picked Phoebe up at O’Hare, had been Bert’s secretary for several years. She was in her late forties, overweight, with short, graying hair. Although polite, she wasn’t particularly communicative, and there had been little conversation between them.
Phoebe was tired from having gotten up at dawn to catch her early flight and she ...felt tense about what lay ahead. Trying to relax, she gazed out the passenger window at the wooded landscape. Stands of oak, walnut, maple, and pine lay on both sides of the service road, and through a gap in the trees to her right, she could glimpse a cyclone fence.
“What’s over there?”
“A regulation-size grass practice field, along with a seventy-yard field. The trees keep the area private from the gawkers.” She passed a turnoff with a rectangular blue and white sign marking a delivery entrance.MoreLess
Phoebe was tired from having gotten up at dawn to catch her early flight and she ...felt tense about what lay ahead. Trying to relax, she gazed out the passenger window at the wooded landscape. Stands of oak, walnut, maple, and pine lay on both sides of the service road, and through a gap in the trees to her right, she could glimpse a cyclone fence.
“What’s over there?”
“A regulation-size grass practice field, along with a seventy-yard field. The trees keep the area private from the gawkers.” She passed a turnoff with a rectangular blue and white sign marking a delivery entrance.MoreLess
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