Chapter 1: New Year, Same Deal
I may look calm, but if this woman goes on for much longer, I will scream I swear to God.
The weekly Monday morning meeting had already dragged on nearly half an hour past its scheduled time, and as Sydney Hayes stared out the windows into the gray January sky, she felt like an animal that would gnaw its own leg off to get out of a trap. Mondays were always bad. But the Monday following a holiday was even worse. When you combined that with the fact that Christmas and New Year’s had both fallen in the middle of the week, which shot two straight weeks right to hell, with half the company taking time off and the other half working from home, getting back into the swing of things was an exercise in futility. All she wanted to do was to drive home, crawl back in
