#Chapter 44: Set Up To Fail

After Hugo leaves, I’m left thinking about the best way to approach Miles to ask him for an interview. Miles doesn’t know that I’ve gotten this new job, but I don’t want to approach him under false pretenses. If I ask him out to lunch and then spring this on him, he’d be understandably upset with me. He might even want to end our fragile friendship, if that’s what it is. I won’t do that to him. Or to us – to this whatever-this-is that connects us. I need another way. Maybe if I tell him about the job first… As I’m thinking, the landline phone on my desk starts to ring and I nearly jump out of my skin in surprise. I don’t even have the number to this phone. Who could be calling? It must be work related! In my chair, I shake out my surprise and straighten. Then I lift the phone. “Hello, this is Esther.” “There’s my wife. Did you get my flowers?” My stomach coils up into itself. Ug. That voice is Garnar’s. “What do you want, Garnar?” I ask. “Those flowers cost a pretty