Killing Plato (A Jack Shepherd Crime Thriller)
“I showered and dressed, trying to do it quietly, and she never stirred.
I went into the study to pick up my briefcase and then, remembering I hadn’t brought it home with me, all at once I also remembered everything else from the night before as well. Since I hadn’t yet had even a drop of coffee, that wasn’t too swell.
The maid didn’t come in until eight and I briefly considered making some breakfast for myself, but with the apartment wired for sound and Anita apparently ready to rip into me abo...ut something as soon as she woke up, getting out of there as quickly as possible was far more appealing. I left by the front door, got into the car, and drove to the Starbucks in Amarin Plaza. Forty-five minutes later, thoroughly buzzed on the caffeine from a double-shot latte and riding a sugar high from ingesting a couple of blueberry muffins, I parked in the garage on campus, collected my notes from my office, and made it to my nine-o’clock class more or less on time.
I had plannedpus to give a lecture that morning on the development of international tax avoidance legislation, but I knew under the circumstances I’d never make it through something that tedious.MoreLess
I went into the study to pick up my briefcase and then, remembering I hadn’t brought it home with me, all at once I also remembered everything else from the night before as well. Since I hadn’t yet had even a drop of coffee, that wasn’t too swell.
The maid didn’t come in until eight and I briefly considered making some breakfast for myself, but with the apartment wired for sound and Anita apparently ready to rip into me abo...ut something as soon as she woke up, getting out of there as quickly as possible was far more appealing. I left by the front door, got into the car, and drove to the Starbucks in Amarin Plaza. Forty-five minutes later, thoroughly buzzed on the caffeine from a double-shot latte and riding a sugar high from ingesting a couple of blueberry muffins, I parked in the garage on campus, collected my notes from my office, and made it to my nine-o’clock class more or less on time.
I had plannedpus to give a lecture that morning on the development of international tax avoidance legislation, but I knew under the circumstances I’d never make it through something that tedious.MoreLess
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