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Lunch with Grant

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*Anna*

“You look great,” Cliff assures me for the three hundred and seventy-eighth time since we climbed into the back of my town car together. “Seriously, Anna. He won’t know that you’re you.”

“I’m his wife,” I repeat. It’s been my response all along. I wish I could see in the rearview mirror so I could adjust my glasses again, but I can’t. I reach up to make sure the fake nose Poppy’s sister made for me is still attached properly, but Cliff gently tugs my hand away.

“You’re going to make it come off if you keep messing with it,” he says.

He’s probably right. Now, I’m petrified that I’ll be in the middle of speaking to Grant, and my nose will plop off, landing in my soup. “I can’t do this.”

“You can, and you will.” Cliff clamps his hand down on my shoulder. “Anna, you’ve got this. You shouldn’t even have much to say. We are winning that project at the moment. If he wants it, he’ll have to convince you.”

He’s not wrong. I definitely want this to be a win-win situation for both of us.
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