Behind her, as I was on speaker phone, I heard the others say, “Mine doesn’t either,” one after the next. One of them even added, “You should try to be more punctual, Luna.”
My annoyance spiked so high, I was ready to jump through the phone. But, one of the qualities of being Luna was patience, so I took a breath and tried to exercise that.
“Well, since we are all here now,” I said. “Let’s start with the meeting.”
“Actually,” one of the wives said, “Since we didn’t hear from you, we went ahead and placed the orders we’d been waiting on you to approve.”
“You didn’t send me any proposals,” I said. Placing them on speaker, I opened my email on my phone to be sure. I had no new emails from any of them. I even checked the junk folder.
“We sent them,” said another wife. “Really, Luna you sh
