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she lay sprawled on the padded mat while Angie stretched her aching
limbs.
    “I think you’re right,” Sarah told her.  “I need to turn off my brain for
four days.  Just sit in a chair and stare at the wall.  Or read all the trashy
magazines my mom saves up for me.”
    “How’s Joe been?” Angie asked.
    Sarah shrugged.  “You know.”  Then she grimaced as Angie angled her leg
into a brutal hip stretch Sarah always both loved and hated.
    She had kept saga of Sarah and Joe to herself for a few weeks, but
finally she couldn’t resist telling Angie about their history.  The trainer
approved of Sarah’s overall plan to make the man suffer.
    “Glad you’ll get a little break from him next week?” Angie asked as she
pushed Sarah’s straightened leg practically over her head.
    “Yes,” Sarah grunted.  “Definitely.  And that other guy—Chapman.  I
can’t wait to not hear his voice for four long days.  What a luxury.”
    Before leaving the gym, Sarah pulled a stack of bills out of her
wallet.
    Angie looked at the amount.  “Are you sure?  This much?”
    “Of course,” Sarah said.  “Thank you.”
    She had been paying Angie off a little more every week, not only for
the current sessions, but for all the ones Angie gave her for free during
Sarah’s six months of unemployment.
    “I know you’ll find something soon,” Angie always told her, and then
finally one day it was true.  Sarah never forgot generosity like that.  She
planned on giving Angie a big bonus at the end of the year, once she paid down
some of her other debts.  Angie was just a small business owner like Sarah’s
parents, and Sarah knew very well the risk Angie had taken in giving her credit
for so long with no guarantee of repayment.
    If only everyone who dealt with Sarah’s parents felt the same way about
compensating them for their work, Sarah thought.  But she knew that wasn’t how
the world worked.  All she could do was her part.
    “What time do you leave tomorrow?” Angie asked her as Sarah pulled a
sweatshirt over her sweaty T-shirt.
    “Around three,” Sarah said.  “I want to get settled in Salt Lake and
have some dinner so I can go to bed early.”
    “Get some sleep tonight, too,” Angie said.  “You’ve got circles under
your eyes.”
    “Yeah, but you should see the other guys,” Sarah joked.  It was true,
Chapman looked like he had put on weight over the past six or seven weeks, and
all of them could probably use more fresh air than they were getting, but Sarah
had been disappointed to see how well Burke held up.  He still looked fit and
rested, even though they had just crammed in five different cities in five days
so they could make Thanksgiving week a short one.  The guy was indestructible. 
Still.
    Sarah stopped by the grocery store on the way home from her workout to
buy herself something healthy.  She picked out a few pieces of fresh fruit and
a couple of lightly-fried vegetable samosas she found in the prepared foods
section.  She missed Indian food.  Good food of any kind, in fact, and her own
cooking even more.  She made one more stop, dropping off her dry cleaning and
picking up clean suits so she could pack for the next day’s trip.
    Sarah hadn’t bought new clothes in over eight months now.  It was a
luxury that was no longer on her list.  She promised herself a full new outfit
when these depositions were all over, but until then she could make do with all
the designer suits she purchased back when she was feeling flush.  As long as
she continued to take good care of them, they should last, no matter how many
times she folded them, ironed them with crappy hotel irons, wore them,
perspired in them, and subjected them to the cleaners.
    As soon as she returned to her apartment, Sarah checked her e-mail,
answered one or two, then headed for the shower.  Now that she had sweated up
her hair at the workout, she was safe giving it the full and laborious
treatment:  shampooing,