They limited their communication during the week and after hours.
He didn’t want to get into the habit of always reaching out when they’d agreed to the weekends being for them.
It was bad enough he missed out on time with her Friday when she slipped out without him noticing.Again.
His plan was to drive her back to his place to stay the night.
Instead, he didn’t see her until Saturday morning, then she stayed most of Sunday and that night he’d gone to the island and returned Tuesday morning on the first flight over with his father and brother.
“Glad she fixed it so quickly. Things happen.”
“They do. I’m more concerned about the way it was handled. Do you think Jared stepping in is going to make it worse for Nora? And do I even tell her?”
“I’d tell her,” his father said. “Just so she knows. I’m willing to bet Norris will find out and he could say something. Better coming from you.”
“That’s what I thought. It’s not a big deal, but someone turned it into one.”
“Then act like it’s not one and move on. She has to earn their respect on her own, not you forcing it. It sounds more like jealousy.”
“You’re probably right. Thanks.”
He left his father’s office and saw Nora walking back toward hers, then seeing him in the hall and turning back to his.
“I didn’t see you in here.”
He shut the door behind him and gestured to the chairs on the side. No reason to get her nervous and make this formal withhim behind his desk. Especially if she got worked up over what went down.
“I was talking to my father. Why didn’t you tell me you were sent the wrong information when I said the report was wrong?”
She frowned. “Because it was my fault for not catching that it was the wrong information.”
She had a point. “You still could have said something.”
“That would be me making excuses for my mistake. I own them. Not everyone owns theirs, but it’s not a problem. I fixed it. I learned from it. How did you find out?”
She was acting like it wasn’t a big deal and he wasn’t so sure why he was.
Yeah, he knew. He wanted nothing to discourage her. To make her not want to stick at this job.
To not be around for him to see daily.
“Remember Jared from the deli last week?”
“Yes.”
“He’s Heather’s boss. It made its way up to Darin.”
She groaned and put her head back on the chair. “Just what I need. People thinking I can’t handle it on my own.”
“That’s why you didn’t say anything?”
“I told you it’s not a big deal. I have to learn my way around things. I thought I handled it well. Guess I didn’t if it got back to people.”
“Tell me how you handled it.”
He listened when he heard her side of it, which was some of what Darin had mentioned. That she stood her ground and was professional through it all.
“Good for you.”
