Kill the Competition
“It was, Libby had told her, the same place the memorial service for Jeanie Lawford had been held. Belinda wasn't sure it was such a good thing that a company had established a standard procedure for memorializing employees.
The four of them had agreed to go for reasons ranging from obligation to keeping up appearances, and they had walked the five blocks to a small chapel in jerky silence. It seemed to Belinda that silence now defined the relationship between the women, along with wounded looks... and betrayed glances. The commute home last night and to the office this morning had been interminable. She considered suggesting that they call off the carpool arrangement, but Carole didn't have a car, and Libby hadn't yet recovered her repossessed SUV. She herself was the proud renter of an egg-yolk-yellow Ford Fiesta, aka the largest Matchbox car ever produced, and she didn't relish going bumper to bumper with eighteen-wheelers through Spaghetti Junction.
Plus she had a theory that this pervasive sense of distrust was actually holding them together—it was as if they were afraid to let each other out of their sight.MoreLess
The four of them had agreed to go for reasons ranging from obligation to keeping up appearances, and they had walked the five blocks to a small chapel in jerky silence. It seemed to Belinda that silence now defined the relationship between the women, along with wounded looks... and betrayed glances. The commute home last night and to the office this morning had been interminable. She considered suggesting that they call off the carpool arrangement, but Carole didn't have a car, and Libby hadn't yet recovered her repossessed SUV. She herself was the proud renter of an egg-yolk-yellow Ford Fiesta, aka the largest Matchbox car ever produced, and she didn't relish going bumper to bumper with eighteen-wheelers through Spaghetti Junction.
Plus she had a theory that this pervasive sense of distrust was actually holding them together—it was as if they were afraid to let each other out of their sight.MoreLess
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