The rest of the day passed too quickly for Zeenia's liking. She made the last of Friday's rounds after lunch and spent the late afternoon on the phone with outsourced companies due to come in on Monday to make deliveries and pick-ups. Back in Manhattan, she would have done it cheerfully as she would then wound down for a weekend of fun, flirting, and another F-word. But here in Michigan, all she had to look forward to was a rich stranger in the restaurant.
Zeenia punched out at six and went straight to the restaurant to get this over with.
She didn't dare eat without Melanie, so she had the waiter bring her wine and a cheese sandwich, to tide her over until the guest arrived. In the meantime, Zeenia jumped between texting her Manhattan friends- (Yana had broken up with Imara again but wa
