Chapter Thirty-Four
AwaitingAfter a good night’s sleep, and a promising day ahead, she was wide awake at five, beating her seven a.m. daily alarm. In her dream, he was kissing her everywhere but on the lips, and when he moved to the last destination, she was awakened. Sleep wouldn’t let her have the crown of her dream. The morning air was cool, yet she found her n***d body sweating.
She reached for her phone on the bedside table and checked the sent text messages—a habit she had acquired after completing each routine activity. She wasn’t sure whether she had sent it. She found it: her text to Tom—their Portland’s managing consultant—sent just before she went to bed last night.
“Tom, can our internal meeting be moved to midafternoon? I need to discuss something with him before I leave fo
