Chapter 11
WHY HASN’T DINAH CONTACTED me?
The same question had been circling through Cecily’s mind for hours. The sleepless night she’d had in the wake of the book signing was written beneath her eyes. It’d taken all of her considerable skill with cosmetics to mask the exhaustion and mime bright-eyed enthusiasm for her interview at Verdant.
Unfortunately, her distractability wasn’t as easy a thing to cover up. She’d gone through the entire tour in a daze. The only thing she’d successfully absorbed was that Verdant was a competitive workplace that rewarded innovation. That and they had nap rooms. Like Google. It’d taken every shred of self-control she possessed not to beg for the opportunity to crawl into one before facing the panel interview with all five partners. Instead, she’d ducke
