EMOTIONS

I want to groan. This is not what I signed up for when I took this job. I wanted to keep my head down while I saved money and made the connections I’ll need to start my own graphic design business in a year or two.

Once I’m working for myself, no one will be able to fire me. No one will be able to make me feel small. No one will be able to make me start over, over and over again.

But before I can get to that Someday,I have to choose sides in a corporate power play.

I look at the clock. My body tenses at the thought of facing down Nathan again. Even if, this time, we’re going to be on the same team.

I check to make sure no one’s paying attention to me, and head to his office.

No sense putting off the inevitable.

“Come in,”Nathan growls when I open the door.

I guess the growling isn’t personal since he has no way of knowing it’s me. Yet.

He’s just a grumbly sort of person.

And maybe, after the stuff I’ve read about his dad, I understand it a little bit. Imagine having to run a company w