to play out for Robert and me. I was happy that we seemed to finally be on the same footing, but I couldn’t help but wonder how this would go from here on out. I just bought a home in the country, but he was still living in the city. He even said that he was too busy to come down this week to visit. What did that mean for the future? Were we going to take turns staying at each other’s places? That seemed exhausting, especially since we were an hour apart.
It bothered me the whole ride into the city, and I found that the further we got from home, the more restless I became. I didn’t particularly like coming to the city. I didn’t like his apartment, no matter how much I tried to enjoy myself there. But I couldn’t tell him that. He would just say that I wasn’t trying, and since we had been together for only two weeks, I couldn’t say I blamed him for feeling that way. So, I sucked it up and tried to enjoy myself. After all, I was with him, and that was really the only thing that mattered.
It was the first time in two days that Robert got home before I went to sleep. He had been working long hours on Rebecca’s case, making sure everything was in order and he wouldn’t be thrown off by anything that might pop up. Not to mention, he had taken on another client, that was dealing with a nasty divorce involving kids.
He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my neck. “What should we do with the rest of our night?”
I glanced at the clock. “You mean, with the whole forty-five minutes I have before I need to get to sleep?”
“Are you an old lady now?”
I slapped him on the arm. “Hey, I need my sleep or I just don’t function properly.”
“Then I’d better make sure that I wear you out so you’ll fall fast asleep,” he murmured, slipping his hand down my pants. I gasped at the contact, but when I heard a buzzing noise, it distracted me.
“Is that your phone?”
“Fuck it, if it is. I’m done for the day.”
But the phone kept buzzing and I couldn’t ignore it. I pushed away from him to check his phone, but it wasn’t his. I picked up my phone and answered when I saw it was Eric.
“Hey, what’s going on?”
“Do you have those contracts ready for me for tomorrow? I didn’t see them in my inbox.”
I chewed on my lip as I tried to remember any contracts I would have had to do. “What contracts?”
“Anna, I sent you an email about them this afternoon. It’s for a job that starts tomorrow. I can’t start the job without those papers.”
“Okay, hold on,” I said, opening my laptop and going to my email. There it was, right in my inbox. “It must have come through after I finished for the day.”
“See, this is why I need you in the office. If I had known you were done for the day, I would have called you,” he said in frustration.
“I’ll take care of it right now.”
He sighed heavily, making me feel like shit. He had other things to worry about and with me not being there, it was putting more pressure on him. This was what he hired me for. I couldn’t run things as smoothly from the city.
“Look, I’ll be home on the weekend and back in the office on Monday.”
“Yeah, I’ve heard that before.”
“I promise.”
I would not screw up this job. Eric had taken a real risk hiring me. I had no experience running an office, but he put his faith in me and got me out of that gas station. I wouldn’t let him down now.
“Give me a half hour and I’ll have everything sent over to you.”
“Alright. Thanks, Anna.”
“No problem.”
I hung up and got to work on the contracts while Robert went to the kitchen and poured me some wine. “Problems?”
“I need to get these contracts done for Eric. He sent them after I was done for the day, and since I’m here, he had no idea that I hadn’t seen them.”
“It’s no big deal,” he shrugged. “You’re getting them to him now.”
“It is a big deal,” I insisted. “If I was at the office, none of this would have happened. He relies on me to make sure this stuff is taken care of, and we don’t work as well when I’m up