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    Tea Party
    Tea Party
    Tea Party
    Ebook38 pages31 minutes

    Tea Party

    By Richard Quarry

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    When a shy young worker unexpectedly gets invited for drinks and girl talk by her department head, she ends up learning a lot more about her boss's life and loves than she really wants to know. And through the process, about her own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDevray Publishing
    Release dateDec 29, 2023
    ISBN9798223571735
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      Book preview

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      Tea Party

      Richard Quarry

      Copyright © 2023 by Richard Quarry

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      Contents

      Tea Party

      About the Author

      All You Ever Have To Do

      Tea Party

      Meredith stared sourly at the back of the waiter’s departing head as having shown us to our table, he slapped down the list of Happy Hour Specials and walked away.

      Nothing but class.

      She dragged back the heavy chair, which scraped against the scarred wooden floor with a grinding, fingernails-down-the-blackboard moan that made a number of people at the other tables flinch. A few cast dirty looks.

      It struck me as just the sort of thing she would know how to do. Though it took a little effort, my own chair slid back without sounding like something out of Edgar Allan Poe.

      Meredith plopped herself down. "Snooty little jerkwad couldn’t be bothered to pull our chairs out for us. Thinks he belongs uptown, not here in le Maison d’Round Chuck’s."

      From her pebbled leather purse she pulled out a lipstick case and reinforced the rather pouty set of her mouth with a sure hand. Very Betty Davis. I wondered how much mirror time you had to put in to perfect such a gesture.

      Do they still do that? I asked, smoothing out my denim skirt beneath me. "Pull out the chairs for you, I

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