Page 57 of Til Death
Her hand went to her stomach and she nodded. “I can eat.”
Nodding, I stood and went into my pocket to grab my phone. “There’s a Thai place I like that delivers. That cool with you?”
“I can do Thai.” Her voice was slightly raspy. She cleared her throat and checked her phone.
“Do you still have work to do?”
It was going on three in the afternoon. “Yeah, I can call a car to take you home if you want. I’ma be here a few more hours.”
Her lips twisted to the side. “No, it’s fine.” She laid her phone face down on the couch.
“You sure? It’s probably gonna be boring for you.”
She shrugged. “Not like I have anything else to do.”
Her voice was full of disconnect and defeat. “Did you at least do whatever you set out to do while you were here?”
Taking my eyes off my phone, I scanned my office.
That caused Xylina to perk up. “Oh yeah. Your filing system was horrible, but don’t worry, hubby. I fixed it.” She winked, then popped up.
Princess ended up walking up too, stretching her body and walking over to me. She sat with her tongue out, looking up at me.
“So in order to help you find things better, I decided to color coordinate your filing system, kind of like I did at home. I know you handle different things; so I gave each main business venture a color then separated it by type and name.”
Xylina continued explaining her system. Color me impressed but it made sense. I never thought to break everything down like she did.
“Honestly, I don’t know how you managed to find anything how you had it.”
I ran my hand over the top of my head. “My assistant kept track of everything.”
“Well, now you don’t need her. I even made a notecard in case you forget what goes where. I also organized your bookshelf. There was no system in how you had them displayed.”
I glanced toward the five-tier bookshelf close to the filing cabinet.
“What do you think?” Xylina asked after a while.
Walking over to the filing cabinet, I pulled the top drawer open and scanned it. It did look clearer and easier to look through.
“You did good. Thank you.” I finally said, closing the drawer and giving her my attention.
Her smile grew and she tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. “I’m glad I could be useful.”
Smirking, I redirected my attention to my phone again. I went to the Thai food site to pull up the menu when Xylina’s phone rang. She looked confused when she looked at the screen.
“Who’s this?” she answered.
I watched her face as she listened to whoever was on the other side. Her face went from confused to surprised.
“Oh yeah sure. That works for me.” Whoever spoke again caused Xylina’s smile to grow wider.
“Yeah, no problem. We can meet at the mall that morning.”
She spoke a little more before finally hanging up.
“Oh my gosh!” she shrieked, causing Princess to jump.
“What’s wrong?”
