Riley had to hustle to get caught up from the work she’d missed during her long lunch. The height of the summer weddings had passed, but that only meant that the consultants at Your Tidal Forever had moved on to their holiday season.
“Lisa,” she said into the phone, waiting for one of her best friends to respond before continuing.
“Go ahead, Riley,” she said, and Riley wished she could sit down with Lisa for just ten minutes and talk about Evan. Charlotte was a good friend, but she was married, and her perspective was different. Lisa would be a better sounding board.
So while she wanted to ask to grab tea that afternoon, she simply said, “I have the Pyne file ready for you, and Gillian called to say she’d be fifteen minutes late.”
Lisa sighed into the phone. “That woman is never on tim
