CHAPTER 25
ON MONDAY, THE office was full of chatter about the upcoming Team Weekend. Every year, the senior partners liked to arrange a bonding session so they could remind us of the importance of making them all as much money as possible. If we’d had a profitable year, they took us somewhere nice, like Barcelona or Euro Disney, but this year we’d barely scraped budget, hence the jaunt to the Lake District to rough it for two days.
Sonia and her cronies were gathered around a laptop at the kitchen counter, shopping for outdoor clothing on their phones in between watching videos of men in army fatigues posing for the camera.
“This jacket—blue or green?” Sonia asked.
“Green would blend into the surroundings better,” Linda said.
“Since when is blending in a good thing? I’ll get the blue
