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What the heck did that mean?
As if it wasn’t bad enough that she wasn’t paying attention and missed the entrance to the office she was meeting in, running right into the corner—and she had to have a witness to it.
Having Colson on her mind wasn’t nearly as bad as feeling his eyes on her when she walked away.
Not after the conversation with Derek Gray.
She knew things like this would come up and should have been more prepared.
Maybe spending so much effort on the past thirty minutes, she wasn’t watching where she was going.
Her mother came into the office, she shut the door and then took a seat.
“I’ve got twenty minutes,” her mother said. “What’s going on?”
“I had a date with Colson on Saturday and just had lunch with him now.”
Her mother laughed. “You texted me over an hour ago and said it was an emergency for that?”
“Sorry. I needed to get a meeting set up to make sure I got out of there on time. You know, put a limit on it.”
She knew her mother would enjoy this.
Something she’d never done once in her life.
She had too much work to do to waste time frivolously, but for once in her life, she had the start of a personal life and maybe she needed some moral support it was okay to feel this way.
Especially after talking with the councilman.
She’d more than make up for it with the hours she’d put in after dinner tonight. And every other night of her life.
Then she reminded herself, she wanted this job.
She knew she could do it and it was a stepping stone to get exactly where her mother was right now.
“Okay, fill me in on Saturday, why I’m just hearing about it now, then lunch.”
“We don’t have enough time for it all, but that I took your advice and when I saw him last time, I gave him my card and told him to call me.”
Her mother’s appalled face said it all. “Just like that? That’s kind of... businesslike.”
“You don’t need to know all those details. I was far from businesslike.”
Or professional.
Not with his hands on her in the guise of frisking her.
Yeah, some things a parent didn’t need to know.
“Got it. So he called and you had dinner?”
“We did. It was wonderful. He’s everything I’ve wanted or told myself I’ve wanted for years.”
“Then what is the problem? Because I can see it in your face there is one.”
“He frustrates me.”
“Most people do if they spend enough time around you.”
