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CHARLIE-MOUSE MEETS T-REX… AND THINGS HAPPEN

CHARLOTTE CLOSED THE FINAL updated folder with a smile

Pushing back fro down her computer, she stretched to loosen up the kinks, then decided to visit the restrooood bet it’d be blissfully e into the city while she was heading in the opposite direction

She could sit against theand people-watch as the bus snaked up and out of the city’s central business and entertainment district Maybe she’d read the little booklet that described the spa treate in too, back on her birthday, but ork being so frantic as the interiether, followed by all the prep for the arrival of the new boss on Monday, she’d had no chance to use it

Nudging her wire-fralasses farther up her nose as she exited the restroom, she let herself back onto the floor, her mind already on the spa treatments she’d booked The idea of a therapeutic le—she’d chosen that one just so she could tell Molly she’d blown the gift card on fancy et a kick out of it

Tonight, however, she had a date with the oven; she was itching to try out her new recipe for banana-nut cupcakes with buttercrearab her purse and coat and catch the elevator down An easy five- on time, she’d be on her way home soon afterward

It was as she passed the fourth cubicle down that she heard it A door slaainst a wall, as if someone had pushed it a little too hard… or bu to move with stealth

Impossible

There was no one else here And no one was likely to have co the few minutes she’d been away froone, their workstations silent She had to have iined it

Another noise, this one duller The kind an overstuffed ht make as it fell to the carpet

An invisible hand choked her throat

Her body shook

And her mind threatened to blank