I tried to ignore it as I walked past Carl at reception. I wasn’t getting the bad tinglies, per se, so maybe everyone was just in a good mood?
Okay, but why is everyone grinning at me like this?
It made me nervous, like somehow they knew. Considering the last few days, a part of me thought they really could pick up Adam’s scent on my skin, or maybe just the pure bliss emanating from my soul.
But I had a history of good gut feelings. I trusted my senses, and they were telling me right now that this wasn’t bad energy. It was good.
It was definitely weird though, so as I passed The Pit, I made eye contact with Liza and with the slightest tilt of my head, she followed me into the bathroom.
I was vaguely nervous, but once we were in there alone, I felt a smile burst onto my lips. Mainly because of the smile on hers.
“Okay, so something’s weird,” I said, narrowing my eyes, but unable to stop grinning at her utter giddiness. “Care to tell me what’s going on right now?”
“Ummm.” She stretched the noise out as she bounced once on her heel. “I would really like to,” she said measuredly. “But I don’t want to take that moment away from you, so I’ll just say that we’ve heard… you might get a call into Engelman’s office today.”
I stared.
Then my pulse jumped.
No way.
“What—”
“That’s all I know!” Liza said, and I saw a flash of her excited smile before she turned and disappeared out the bathroom door, leaving me alone to realize that it might actually be happening.
I knew I wasn’t about to be disciplined for anything. I also knew this was the time of year that assistant promotions happened.
For the next few hours, I tried to work normally and avoid celebrating before anything was official, but that was certainly hard when people would come by with work questions only to end our conversation in a grin, a fist bump and a “congrats.”
There was only so long a girl could go before texting Georgia to freak out.
ME: Hi. I’m freaking out.
GEORGIA: Hi. Why??? Did he propose or something?
I laughed. She knew about my last few days with Adam, and the stories definitely had her on a high herself, because she was already asking me what kind of ring I’d want.
ME: No. But I think I’m getting promoted to agent.
GEORGIA: SHUT THE FRONT DOOR.
GEORGIA: IS THIS REAL LIFE??!?
GEORGIA: This has been the best three days of my life and it’s not even my life. I’m overwhelmed. I have to go buy out all the champagne from my local store now.
I was cracking up at my desk, and even harder when twelve minutes later, Georgia texted a picture of her cart at the liquor store.
“Holy crap,” I muttered to myself just as I got a call at my desk. I picked it up fast, and my eyes fluttered wide as I heard the hilariously brash, scratchy sound of Engelman’s voice.
“AJ. Get your ass in my office.”
“You fucking knew.”
An hour later, I was in Adam’s office, standing in front of his desk and shaking my head like I was pissed at him.
But we both knew I was so far from that.
“Let’s not act like this was a cakewalk for me, alright? I’ve known since Monday when we signed Knox, and I managed to keep it from you this whole time,” Adam grinned as he leaned back in his chair with his gaze dancing on me, because we both knew we wanted to be touching each other right now. All over each other. But he’d just come back from his meeting, I’d just been awarded my fucking dream job and the attention of the entire office was still trained on me.