“I’m going to miss Dinah,” Brenda sighed.
“She was only here for two days,” Reed pointed out. And in the thirty-six hours he’d been around her, she’d exhausted him with questions about Virtual Match for a prospective new book. He figured he owed her, both for lobbying on his behalf with Cecily and for the incredibly successful signing. But after the last few days, he was ready for life to go back to normal.
“I know, but she’s so amazing. We stayed up half the night after the signing drinking and talking.”
Reed didn’t know what Dinah had said to Brenda, but she seemed calmer, less hostile than he’d seen her in all the time she’d worked for him, and just generally in a better place.
He wished he were in a better place.
He’d gotten Cecily’s message that she wanted to talk, but when he’d
