That was fine in her eyes.
His palm touched hers, and she held the gasp in at the connection that was just as alive now as it was weeks ago. “Nice to see you too,” Ethan said, his voice washing over her body as it had that night.
She needed to get out of here pronto.
“Eleanor,” her father said. She bit her lip, but her stare was enough. “So sorry. Just a hard habit. My daughter prefers to go by Nora. Nora, this is Mason Rauch, I’m sure you remember him.”
“I do,” she said. Her father had worked with Mason before Bond Enterprises and recruited him. A point of pride her father had and boasted of to everyone who would listen.
“And this is Darin Nadar, CFO.” She moved closer and shook his hand also.
“Nice to put faces with names.” It was the polite thing to say. She hadn’t heard many of these names in years. When she talked to her father it was never about his job, but always about her dismal life that he felt he had to point out all her flaws.
“I’m going to treat my daughter to lunch,” her father said. “She’s new to Boston and looking for a job. I keep telling her to apply here, but she doesn’t want special treatment.”
She closed her eyes. How much more embarrassing could this be?
“What do you do?” Mitchell said.
“I’ve got a degree in communications and marketing. I’ve done everything from market research, digital marketing,public relations, event planning, advertising, social media, presentations. Things like that. I’ve worked for smaller companies where I wore a lot of hats.”
“She’s trying to find her way,” her father said. “She’ll have more opportunities in Boston.”
“Sounds like a perfect fit for you, Ethan.”
That was a woman’s voice. One that was distant and then moved closer. “Blair isn’t wrong,” her father said. “Ethan needs an assistant because my old one that he stole ten years ago is leaving.”
“I asked and she jumped,” Ethan said. “That’s not really stealing.”
Nora remembered this now. How one call she’d had with her father, he complained that it’d take him a long time to find someone else. In her mind, she didn’t know how he held onto anyone if he talked to them the way he did his daughter.
He had to be doing something right to be employed for so long though.
“Norris, I’m going to steal your daughter away for a few minutes and have a chat with her. Ethan is struggling to replace me and what you described is exactly the type of background he needs. We’ll be back.”
She didn’t have a chance to dispute anything as the woman pulled her down another hall and out of reach.
Her father didn’t try to stop it.
No way Ethan would approve this, even if he thought it was a good idea.
And it wasn’t.
If she hadn’t seen him naked, she’d consider it.
Maybe.
Working in the same building with her father would never have been ideal.
She’d always wonder if he’d gotten her the job.
Though she had to admit, he didn’t do much this time other than announce her status.
Her father most likely wouldn’t want her here anyway.
He’d be embarrassed over her work history. He probably thought she lacked incentive and motivation.
She had all those things. She could stick too.
