A PLACE TO STAY (STRAIGHT FRIENDS FALL IN LOVE #2) BY AIDEN WILDE – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Aiden Wilde
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DANNY
“The job is yours, Danny! Well done!”
My boss, Mr. Reynolds, stood up to shake my hand. Everyone
was beaming. Everyone, including me. I couldn’t believe it. I had made
principal architect at twenty-eight. I could not believe it. I was sitting in that
room with the wall of senior faces, all grinning at me. I had aced the
interview, I knew that, but even so, now it was here.
I knew that the city’s architecture WhatsApp groups would be full of it,
and my LinkedIn “pals” would be liking every post I ever made. (And I
hadn’t done one in three years.) But this was it: Danny West was officially
going to be a big deal.
The woman from HR was talking:
“So you know the package, and you’re okay with it, I assume?”
Okay with it? Man, I had doubled my salary in one fell swoop; I hadn’t
just broken the six-figure barrier but smashed through it.
“Obviously, there’s the pay rise, the extra benefits, the upgraded health
plan, those things, but one thing we’ve just decided to do is to have you in
another office a few days every two weeks.”
For a moment, I didn’t understand.
“Sure,” I said, because in these moments, when they haven’t actually sent
you a contract yet, everyone could back off real fast. “Which office?”
The HR woman smiled as if she had the best news for me.
“New York. We’d love you to be in New York two or three days out of
every two weeks.”
“New York?” I said, and I could hear my own lack of enthusiasm, so I
tried to fake a smile.
“Sure,” Mr. Reynolds said, leaning over. “That’s okay, isn’t it?”
New York? I didn’t wanna live in New York with any regularity, even if
only a few days every two weeks. I mean, I wouldn’t say I hated New York,
I wouldn’t say that at all, but live there? I didn’t want to live there at all. I
liked living here, in the city in which I grew up, to which I returned after
college. Still, I knew I had to play it cool.
“Is that…is that absolutely necessary?” I asked. “Can’t the work be done
with Teams and Zoom?”
My boss gave me a firm look.
“It’s totally necessary, Danny. You’re a big guy.” He laughed. “Literally!
How tall are you?”
“Six-three.”
“Yeah,” he said. “A big six-three gym guy who is going to be the principal
architect for some of our biggest projects in the country. That means dinners
with clients, site visits, just schmoozing new business with a coffee, and a
quick look at some cool designs on your MacBook Pro.” He nodded.
“You’re that guy, aren’t you?”
There was a rustle around the room, metaphorically as loud as the wind in
the treetops: all eyes on me.
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