Page 30 of Just Do It
‘Go on then.’
‘Are you sure you want me to?’
‘You’ve started now. You might as well finish.’
‘You’re a terrible manager.’
‘Pardon?’
He repeated his statement.
‘No, I’m not! My staff like me.’
‘Because they’re allowed to do what they like.’
‘They’re good people and good workers.’
‘Bella doesn’t seem to do much work.’
‘She did before you showed up!’
‘So it’s my fault?’
‘Yes. The only thing that’s changed is your presence, hence the fault lies with you.’
‘And nothing to do with you not telling her that she has work to get on with rather than swinging her legs off your desk.’
‘I knew you’d noticed her legs.’
He half raised one brow. ‘I said I wasn’t interested, not blind.’
‘What am I supposed to say? Stop lusting over the project manager and get on with your work?’
‘Something like that.’
I screwed my face up, horrified at the thought. ‘I can’t!’
‘Why not? That’s part of your job, isn’t it?’
I remained silent.
‘And that’s the part you don’t like. Dealing with people.’
‘I’m not anti-people. I’m just more comfortable dealing with their problems when they’ve been dead a few millennia.’
‘I can see how that might be easier.’
‘Besides, I’m sure she’ll get over you soon enough. You’re not that great.’
‘Should I have let Bella’s attentions go to my head, at least I know where to come to be brought back down to earth.’
‘I deal in facts.’
This brought a hearty laugh from Finn. ‘No you don’t. You deal in best and educated guesses.’
Annoyingly he was right. As archaeologists, that was exactly what we did. But that wasn’t the point.
‘Sometimes.’
