Passion in James County XIII
Nancy's Quest
By D.C. Roi
Chapter twelve
After she made up her mind that she was going to remain faithful to her husband, Nancy was able to keep herself from cheating for several weeks. Each day, she left the house, and verbalized her intent to resist temptation out loud in her car as she drove to work. In addition, she avoided situations where she and Lee McGill would be alone. She also insisted that her sons do more of the chores around the house so she wouldn't have to ask Benny Morris to come over and help. She was starting to feel a lot better about herself. In fact, several of her co-workers commented on how much more pleasant she'd become.
When Ted Adamson, one of her firm's clients, asked her if they could meet over dinner to discuss his account, Nancy agreed. She often conducted business over dinner, so doing so with Mr. Adamson wasn't anything new.
They met in the dining room of the River House, an up-scale hotel in Jamestown and, while they waited for their meal to be served, they carried on a rather pleasant conversation. Adamson, a prominent businessman, was about fifty, and was also quite handsome and urbane. Their conversation before dinner was wide-ranging, and Nancy found herself liking him a lot.
"I'm hope I didn't put you out by asking you to discuss my account over dinner, Nancy," her client said.
"You aren't putting me out, Mr. Adamson," Nancy replied. "I often meet with clients over dinner to discuss their accounts."
Her client smiled and said, "I probably shouldn't ask, but are you going to put this dinner on my bill?"
Nancy knew he was kidding and smiled at him coyly. "I wouldn't think of doing anything like that, Mr. Adamson," she replied. "I consider special client relations like this part of the service our firm provides."
"If special client relations is important to you, there is one thing you could do," Mr. Adamson said.
"What's that?" Nancy replied. "If I can do it, I will."
"I'm sure you can do it," her dinner host replied. "You can stop calling me Mr. Adamson and start calling me Ted."
Nancy smiled, nodded, and said, "I'd be happy to do that, Ted." The more time she spent with him, the more she liked him. She could understand why he had become as successful as he had.
"I hope you don't think I'm chauvinistic, but I'd like to order dinner for both of us. Do you mind, Nancy?" Ted asked as they had before-dinner drinks.