Bye, Mum. Don’t wait up, I might be late.’
Zoe Harris twinkled her fingers at her mother Maureen and headed for the front door.
‘You’re looking very glam, darling. Where’re you off to tonight?’
Maureen pushed herself away from her computer long enough to admire her daughter’s expensive scarlet and black dress, and her sleek, newly highlighted blonde hair.
‘Nowhere exciting. Just dinner with a guy.’
‘Excellent! It’s high time you took a break and had some sort of social life.’
Zoe wished her mother wouldn’t get quite so excited about every dinner date she went on. It was just a meal, after all.
And, as she kept reminding her mum, being a financial adviser wasn’t easy, and as the youngest partner in the firm, she had to work late and on most weekends. She couldn’t remember when she’d last been out with a man who wasn’t a client hoping for free advice about investments.
‘Well, I hope he appreciates his good luck. I’ll probably be still awake and working when you come back. I’ve loads more to do on these revisions.’
‘Aren’t you going out too, Mum? It’s Saturday, I thought you and Auntie Dora were seeing that Brad Pitt movie.’
‘Brad will have to wait. They want the first three chapters by Monday.’
‘There’s such a thing as all work and no play, you know,’ teased Zoe.
‘Oh, I’m not quite as bad as you are, love! I do have a bit of fun now and again.’
‘I can guess your idea of fun – computer solitaire!’
This story is from the September 15, 2020 edition of WOMAN'S WEEKLY.
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