What's So Funny
“During this time, her own work suffered, of course, so when she finally had the list printed out and safely inside a manila envelope inside her shoulder bag under her desk, she turned immediately to the concerns and hungers and unfulfilled dreams of another enraged family — oil — but had only been at it for twenty minutes when her desk phone rang.Oh, what now? She didn’t have time for this, she’d be here till midnight, and what would happen to Brian’s dinner, would he prepare some exotic cuisin...e and then just sit there and watch it congeal, hour after hour? Why would people phone her at a time like this?No choice; she had to answer. “Hemlow,” she said into the phone, and a clipped British female voice said, “Mr. Tumbril wishes to see you in his office. Now.”Click. Stunned, Fiona put down her phone. Why would a partner in the firm want her in his office? And why, of all the partners, Mr. Tumbril? In New York, a city known for fierce litigators the way New Orleans is known for overweight chefs and Los Angeles for fanciful accountants, the name Jay Tumbril was in itself very often enough to make mad dogs settle and homicidal maniacs run screaming from the room.Well, she’d soon find out what it was about.MoreLess
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