The Coworker by Freida McFadden EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Freida McFadden
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NATALIE
DAWN ISN’T at her desk this morning when I walk into the office, which
means the world is coming to an end.
I’m joking. Obviously, the world is not coming to an end. But if you
knew Dawn, you would get it.
For the last nine months, Dawn Schiff has occupied the cubicle next to
mine at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where we both work.
You could set your watch by her routines. 8:45, she’s at her desk. 10:15, she
takes a bathroom break. 11:45, she goes to the break room and has her
lunch. 2:30 is another bathroom break. And at five o’clock sharp, she shuts
down her computer and leaves for the day. If there were some sort of
apocalyptic event in which all timepieces in the world were lost, we could
all get back on schedule just by watching when Dawn went to the
bathroom. Down to the second.
I usually arrive at work somewhere in the thirty-minute window
between eight-thirty and nine. Well, nine-ish. If all the stars align, I make it
by 8:30. But even though I swear I put my keys in the exact same place
every day, on the table right by the front door, sometimes during the night
they get up and walk away somewhere. And then I have to look for them.
Or else I hit traffic. So much traffic. Dorchester Avenue is a parking lot
during rush-hour.
This morning, the lights were not in my favor, but the traffic was sparse,
so at ten minutes to nine, I step into the large office space that houses
Vixed. I walk through the rows of identical cubicles stuffed into the center
of the room, my red heels clicking against the linoleum floor, the
fluorescent lights flickering above my head. As I pass by Dawn’s cubicle on
the way to my own, my hand already raised in greeting, I stop short.
The cubicle is empty.
As strange as Dawn’s schedule is, it’s even stranger that today she isn’t
following it. I can’t help but think that Dawn’s absence must signify
something ominous. After all, Dawn is never late. Never.
“Natalie! Hey, Nat! Guess what!”
I rip my eyes away from Dawn’s cubicle at the sound of Kim’s voice.
She’s skipping down the aisle of cubicles, her tanned face glowing.
Kim Healey is my best friend at work, which sadly means that she’s my
best friend in general since work has increasingly become my entire life.
She got back from her honeymoon two weeks ago and has the most
spectacular tan as well as highlights in her formerly dark brown hair—she
even still smells slightly like sand and sunscreen. She looks fantastic and
I’m so happy for her. And I’m only like ten percent jealous. Really—I
genuinely wish her all the happiness in the world, as I said in my slightly
drunken wedding toast.
I rake my eyes over Kim’s black and white patterned Ann Taylor dress,
noting a telltale bulge. “You’re pregnant!” I gasp.
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