I Remember by Julie Cannon

Author:Julie Cannon
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781602828667
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2013-03-26T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Emery glanced up at the light knock on her door. Dana was standing in her doorway.

“You wanted to see me?”

Goddamnit, when was her heart going to stop jumping every time she saw Dana? “Yes, come on in, close the door.”

Emery didn’t get up from her chair behind her desk. Normally when she had people in her office, she directed them to the couch and chairs around the low table in the corner. It was a much more casual atmosphere and Emery liked the energy that was generated there. Sitting behind her desk signaled her link in the power chain, and she didn’t like using it unless she absolutely had to.

But when Dana came into her office she did. She knew it was just a façade, but she needed this hunk of wood to help her maintain her professionalism, to keep her emotional distance from Dana. When she had staff meetings she always made sure Dana was sitting on the same side of the table so she wouldn’t be as distracted. She made sure something or someone was between her and Dana and grudgingly admitted it was a complete waste of effort. Her body responded just when Dana stood on her threshold, let alone sat in front of her in a skirt with her legs crossed, exposing far, far too much skin for her to ever be able to concentrate.

She took several swallows of water from the bottle on the corner of the desk and made her brain focus. She glanced at her notes in front of her. Whenever she planned to have a one-on-one conversation with Dana she needed to take notes because her mind always turned to mush. She was a successful executive of a multi-billion-dollar company who could do an off-the-cuff interview with The Wall Street Journal, give highly technical and complex speeches in front of thousands of people at conferences, and comfortably celebrate the birthday of the payroll clerk on the third floor. But when she was alone in a room with Dana, she turned into someone she had never known or would recognize as herself. She just wanted to listen to Dana talk, to hear her voice. Watch her hands move as she described something, watch her eyes light up when a thought or a concept energized her. Dana existed in her business life and Dee lived in her dreams.

“Emery?” Dana asked.

“Yeah…um…” She stumbled. She wanted to say, “I want you, Dana. To hell with the auditors, to hell with Martin and anybody or anything that gets in my way of having you again. I think about you all the time. I can’t sleep without you next to me, I can’t concentrate, I can’t imagine my life without you.” Instead she said, “Stephenson Electronics has proposed a merger.”

“A merger? A company that’s about ready to have the bank close their doors wants a merger with Martin? That’s the kind of thinking that got them into the situation that they’re in,” Dana said dismissively.

“I know.” Emery tried to get her mind back on track.

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