Chapter 14
I mustn’t think about it. I mustn’t think about the fact that I spent all of Christmas Day working from home on my computer. I also mustn’t think about the fact that Daniele’s phone has no signal and that I haven’t heard from him for hours, or that we’re closing the deal with these bloody Japanese guys in a few days and I won’t sleep a wink until then. At least Albert had the decency to give me Loren, one of the trainees, for support. They say she was the best student at her prestigious university, and he didn’t let her slip away.
And, as if that weren’t enough, to top it all off, the firm is in total turmoil today: there’s an endless stream of comings and goings, the phones are ringing off the hook, and there’s a lot more shouting than usual.
Lisa told me that the cause of a
