Far from Home (BENEATH ITALIAN SKIES #3) by T.A. Williams EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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‘Tough day?’
‘Tougher than yours by the look of it.’
Amy dropped her briefcase onto a chair and slumped down alongside
Gavin on the sofa, feeling completely washed out. He must have stopped
off at his place on his way here from work and she saw that he had had time
to change out of his suit into jeans and a T-shirt. From the way he was
sprawled out on the sofa, he looked as if he’d been here for hours. His eyes
were glued to the vast TV screen that occupied most of the opposite wall.
He had persuaded her to buy it last Christmas and nowadays he was round
here almost every night, and he seemed to spend an inordinate amount of
time just sitting staring at movie after movie – when he wasn’t out
schmoozing clients. Tonight she immediately recognised The Wolf of Wall
Street with Leonardo DiCaprio and she snorted. Talk about coals to
Newcastle.
He waved vaguely in the direction of the bottle of Sancerre Premier Cru
that she had been saving for a very special occasion. It was on the table in
front of him and already half empty. ‘Drink?’ There was only one glass and
that was in his other hand, and she debated whether to get up and go and
look for one for herself, before deciding she was too weary. Needless to say,
he didn’t offer to get one for her.
She glanced back at him. ‘Have you eaten?’ No reply, so she nudged him
with her elbow and tried again – louder. ‘Gavin, have you eaten?’
He nodded absently. ‘I had a burger at the squash club.’
She glanced at her watch. It was nine fifteen. He must have left work
really early – unlike her. Theoretically her working day was supposed to
finish at five, but it had been getting longer and longer as she climbed the
ladder towards the glass ceiling. There were some – like her immediate
boss, Scott – who reckoned she’d already smashed her way through it, but
she knew better. Before she got that corner office on the seventeenth floor
she knew she’d have to be prepared to fight tooth and nail in what was still
very much a boys’ club.
She was mildly surprised to see Gavin pause the movie and turn towards
her. ‘You look shattered, Amy. What’s happened?’
She stretched her arms above her head in a vain attempt to relax her neck
muscles and chase away the nagging headache. ‘Nothing bad… but it could
have been a disaster.’ Seeing his enquiring look, she explained, ‘We had a
thirty-seven-million-pound deal going through involving yuan, rupees and
ZAR. For a while this afternoon it was all looking very wobbly and we
stood to lose a small fortune.
’ She corrected herself. ‘Make that a large
fortune. You could have cut the tension in the office with a knife. It finally
all went through just a matter of seconds before close of play in Cape
Town.’ Even just the memory brought a cold chill to her stomach and she
reached out, grabbed his glass of wine from him and drained it without
tasting it. Yes, she thought to herself, it had been a tough day.
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