Chapter 8
ARIA slept until ten Saturday morning. She was relatively free to set her own schedule during the work week, but between morning meetings and the regular jogging schedule she'd set for herself, she still had to get up earlier than she liked every weekday morning. On Saturdays, she never made any plans before noon.
Once she was up and functioning, she decided to tackle cleaning her home. Her schedule was usually so busy during the week that she tended to ignore the clutter. It took a few hours. When she finished, she sat down on her couch — guilt free — with an organic root beer and her laptop, all set to work on her article for the rest of the day.
An hour later, the telephone startled her out of her essay on jet propulsion analytics using an unconventional power source in a v
