“Just giving us both something to think about.”
19
WALK ALL OVER YOU
“Nora, can you come into my office?”
“On the way,” she said, grabbing her tablet and moving into Ethan’s office.
Her first few days on her own after finishing last week with Blair.
Monday, Memorial Day, everyone was off. Yesterday she was solo and had so much work lined up the day flew by with her feeling rushed and behind and showing up first thing on Wednesday to get started.
Ethan calling her in a little before his meeting at ten wasn’t normal.
Nor was his tone of voice.
“That report you did yesterday, it’s the wrong timeframe.”
“What?” she asked, the dread filling the pit of her stomach, then rushing up her throat.
She’d had such a great weekend with Ethan after their minor hiccup on Friday.
Nothing long and hard like he promised. Nothing at all.
Mitchell arranged a dinner that night for Blair and all the senior staff and their assistants. She was invited, attended,didn’t make eye contact much with Ethan, let alone her father, then left to walk home before it was dark, not wanting to intrude on their closeness.
It was thirty minutes before he texted wanting to know where she was.
Saturday he hadn’t been happy, but she told him to get over it. They said a few words to clear the air, then had a great time the rest of the day and Sunday, him on the island Monday with his family.
Tuesday morning she dove into her job and was thrilled to finish her first project alone.
Only it sounded like she’d messed it up completely.
Talk about a great impression!
“Come here and look at my computer.”
She got up and moved behind his desk, the scent of his aftershave lingering in her nostrils. Not something she should think about when he was calling her in here to say she made a mistake.
“Did I overwrite formulas or something?”
She double and triple-checked everything equaled. Not even Blair did that, but she liked having safeguard formulas in place.
“Here is the report you gave me and here is the one from last year, same quarter. They are the same numbers.”
He was toggling back and forth, and she looked up at the dates he was showing her.
She reached across to grab his mouse, not caring that their hands touched. No way she did that wrong. How could she have?
“I don’t understand,” she said.
She pulled out the file from last year and last quarter. Just to make sure she did it right.
Did she accidentally use the data from accounting from last year by mistake?
Or did she put the wrong request in there herself since she was doing another project for him on last year’s data?
