Chapter 280

• The car drops me at the now-familiar office building. The day is gray and wet this morning, and the air has a cold nippiness. New York is coming up for a season change.
• I run through the necessary security passes before I’m on the sixty-fifth floor; the building is eerily quiet due to the early hour. Shivering, I pull my wool coat around my shoulders to warm up even though the building has state-of-the-art temperature control.
• Margo greets me at the office door along with a blonde woman clad in expensive clothes and an air of seductiveness. Tall, graceful, and dressed in red, Margo introduces her as Donna Moore, the personal shopper, and informs me I’m to be measured. Mr. Carrero insists that his closest staff receive this perk as his public image often sees him on red carpets and at the center of media interest. He expects anyone who might accompany him to be appropriately dressed, always.