Chapter 20

By January, I was seven months pregnant, and the Meridian Home rebranding campaign had become the highest-performing launch in our agency's history. True to the contract I signed, I left the office every afternoon at four-thirty. Nobody questioned my hours. Nobody asked me to cover someone else's mistakes. With my retroactive promotion bonus and the twenty-eight thousand dollars recovered from the divorce settlement, I had already paid off every cent of my medical deductibles and furnished...