puts the kettle on. ‘Paid leave!’ She smiles. ‘How generous is that?’
So, Sam gets paid leave and I get a fully inclusive break in a snowbound, rundown holiday resort with the Anti-Christmas.
And he’s already decided I’m an idiot.
‘There’s more.’
‘More?’
I hand her the slip of paper and watch the emotions flicker across her open features. If it was me, there’d be a hell of a lot of conflict going on there. Fear, doubt, envy, disbelief. Sam just grins.
‘Bloody hell, Sare, this means you’ve got a five-year plan! That is so—’
‘Not me?’ Sam know what I’m like. She knows I always like an escape route. That I can’t even commit to a hair colour, let alone a man or a job.
‘So amazing! It’s brilliant.’
‘It is? Sorry, I mean it is.’ I try and sound positive.
‘You love working here, and you’ll be able to look at new places, and redecorate.’ I raise an eyebrow; she’s getting carried away. ‘And tell Will Armstrong where to get off. It’s ace!’
‘I’ve never thought about even a five-day plan before. Five years is a bit . . . well, a bit somebody else, not me.’
‘You don’t have to think of it like that, though, do you? I mean, you were never going to just up and bugger off and leave Lynn and me in the lurch, were you?’
She has a point. ‘Well, no, but—’
‘This is just kind of giving you more power!’
I stop my self-indulgent worrying and give her a big hug. ‘Oh Sam, where would I be without you?’
‘Buggered, which means you can’t sack me!’
‘I’d never sack you.’
Her eyes are twinkling. ‘But you are going to sort Will Armstrong out?’
I take a deep breath, disentangle myself and turn back to my computer. ‘Yep, my first priority as,’ I pause; it seems a bit out-there to say it, ‘a company director.’
I click a button on the keyboard, my fingers crossed under the desk.
Booking confirmed.
‘All done, an all-inclusive break at the Shooting Star Mountain Resort. Watch out, Will, here I come.’
Bugger, what have I done?
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