Page 56 of The Rules Of Attraction
“I like doing things my own way too much. It’s great to work for someone, but there gets to a point when you see better ways of doing things. More efficient.” I’d gotten to that stage at Ashfords. Honestly if things hadn’t ended so badly, I would have probably looked to get the wheels in motion sometime this year to get my own firm. That would have been in LA.
“I agree.” He nodded and seemed to be thinking about something. “Did you work in Ohio?”
This was the part that I had to gloss over and conveniently skip over the two years of my life that I spent at Ashfords.
“No, I never worked in Ohio. I did my internship at the Washington branch of Silvermans the minute I finished college.”
“You got into Silvermans?” he raised a surprised brow and looked truly impressed.
“Yes.”
“Damn.”
Silvermans was one of the hardest firms to get into for anything. They took on exactly six interns per year, and your recruitment with them would have started from the end of your freshmen year of college. They did a summer scheme and if you didn’t get into that you could forget about ever applying to do anything with them.
I’d gotten into the summer scheme twice, and by the time I graduated I practically had a desk there waiting for me. They wanted to keep me on after my internship, but I had my eyes on LA. I stayed for a year and then headed out for bigger fish.
“After Silvermans I went to LA and worked at Gold and Thorpe.”
Hearing that he brought his hand to his chin.
“Gold and Thorpe? My old college professor ran the training program there.” He straightened up.
“Eli Parker?” I threw in recalling the wiry looking man who was very eccentric in his behavior. He had that kind of personality you couldn’t forget.
“Yes.” Alex’s eyes sparkled with interest. “Wow, angel, are you sure a PA position is what you need? That’s some solid experience you have there.”
If only he knew. I would have given anything to go back to any of those firms. Sadly, after the Ashfords disaster neither had gotten back to me when I reapplied. I felt that they didn’t want to flat out reject me because I worked there before and left on really good terms. Not hearing back was simply that. It left it to me to take their non-response in whatever way I wanted.
“Yes, I think I’ll be okay.” I lied.
“Well, now that I know I’ll be treating you like an equal, and not just like a PA.”
“Oh no, I would never expect you to do that.” I smiled.
“I don’t think that I could treat you any less after hearing all that experience. I’ve never met anyone who got into Silvermans, and Gold and Thorpe is on the same level. They take the best. I know what it’s like to be bossed around doing something your hearts not into, I’m not about that.”
“Thank you.” I appreciated it, and it did make me feel a bit better.
“So hey, I still don’t know what you like and don’t like.” He pointed out. “Law can’t be the only thing in your world.”
It was nice that he wanted to know more about me. “I like shoes.” I offered.
“Oh yes, you’re obsessed.” His eyes crinkled.
“I’m twenty eight and still I go absolutely crazy over a great pair of shoes like a teenager. I love shopping too, love Italian food, and despise lamb chops.”
“How can you despise lamb chops. They taste great.” He chuckled looking at me askance.
I shook my head. “It’s awful, and smells bad like the lambs still alive.”
He laughed at that. “No babe, you let me cook for you and then you can tell me if you don’t like lamb chops.”
“You cook?”
“Love it.”
That was interesting. I wouldn’t have figured him to be someone who loved cooking. I gazed at him wanting to know more. “Your turn.”
