![]() ![]() The sky was so dark it could have been nine at night instead of nine o'clock in the morning. Slumping over her bunched-up hand-knit cashmere blanket, she stared across her cavernous bedroom to the bay window that overlooked the gardens and pool in the backyard. ![]() ![]() If you live anywhere in eastern Pennsylvania or southern New Jersey, you're gonna want to break out your golf umbrellas and galoshes, people. "We're looking at record rainfall and possibly some thunderstorms rolling in late today, lasting straight through the night. ![]() Windshield wipers whipped furiously and raindrops pelted the camera lenses. "And it's a washout for the greater Philadelphia area today," he said as the screen snapped to live shots of the Liberty Bell, the steps outside the art museum, and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. A snarky-looking guy with a clipped white mustache grinned back at her from behind his state-of-the-art weather desk. Teagan jabbed at the buttons on her remote control, flipping the channels on her plasma-screen TV until it finally landed on the Weather Channel. She sat up straight in her four-poster bed, her silk rose-colored Calvin Klein nightgown twisted around her size-six body like a straitjacket, and shouted at the top of her lungs. Teagan Phillips was thirty seconds into her day and already she was seriously pissed off. ![]()
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