He tapped on the display of his phone, opening the contacts. He scrolled down. For a moment he hesitated. Then he tapped on the number he was looking for and put the phone back against his ear. It rang three times and then Steve picked it up. “Joe? Hi! How are you doing?” Steve sounded surprised.
When Joe returned to the dining room, their table was deserted. The others had obviously moved to the other room with the projector that Rick had been talking about earlier. At the reception Joe asked for directions. He needed to head to another wing of the building. Walking down a long corridor
The waiter came to take their order. “Just order anything,” he told Sarah. “I really don’t care what I have…” Sarah ordered two cocktails that she knew they both liked. For a moment they just sat in silence, Joe gloomily staring at the table between them, his arms crossed. “I can’t believe she d
“The password’s not all that hard to figure out,” he said, “And the e-mails I get really aren’t all that exciting. At least I thought so.” “Okay,” Sarah said slowly. “Guess she found an interesting one after all… But why do you have to go back to the house? The damage is already done anyway. And yo
Joe threw his bag into the trunk and the small backpack on the backseat and then got on his way. He realized too late that he had left his glasses in the backpack. How confused was he already that he didn’t even remember the most basic things? His vision without the glasses wasn’t too bad, but th
Thankfully, everyone who had contributed photographic material seemed to have – consciously or not – avoided including anything that would show Joe and her in a way that would indicate romantic involvement. Maybe it wasn’t so much that they had avoided it, but more that there simply wasn’t a lot of
He shook his head. “No, not really,” he admitted. “I kind of wanted to have a quick word with you.” “Yeah, me too, actually,” she said. “It’s hard to tell you anything with everyone around.” Her very short whispered summary in the conference room had probably left him more confused than enlightened
When Joe reached the house around eleven-thirty, he was relieved that the drive was finally over. He felt exhausted and the Jazz had really started to get on his nerves towards the end. As he carried his stuff in and closed the front door behind himself, he realized how weird it felt to be here all