happen.
She had never been the kind of woman to give her body freely to any man who caught her interest.
Allowing him to seduce her may have been a mistake.
He had charm, appeal and the kind of personality and looks that made a girl's panties tie in a wet knot between her legs, but when it came down to how to treat a woman, Nathan Maxwell had obviously missed the day when God passed out that little handy piece of information.
Hannah was starting to think it would just be better to leave.
Of course she was now working in the penthouse, which meant that she would see Nathan a lot less than she would have if she were still working at the main house in The Serene Willow Estates but at least when she ran into him at the house there was a good chance of other people being around, and it would be less awkward and painful.
She could hide her feelings and her pain when others were around and she was working, being unprofessional and starting drama in her place of employment was never going to be something that she took part in.
But Hannah knew that if she was alone with him in the penthouse only two scenarios could come from that and both of them ended with her getting hurt by him again.
Either she would confront him about the way he had treated her and they would argue and he would tell her that she was free to go and she would lose her position or she would end up pushing all of those hurt feelings and negative thoughts back into the closet of her mind where she would deal with them on her own later, and she would end up having sex with him again.
Her intention had been to stay at the penthouse tonight in the one of the guest rooms like Nathan had told her she could when he first gave her the position.
She had a bag packed and it was sitting in the back seat of her car waiting for the end of the day to come so she could go get it and get settled into her new room for the night.
"Very bad idea," she told herself in a whisper as she finished up polishing one of the coffee tables.
The smell of Lemon Pledge filled the room with it's comforting brightness that was totally at odds with how she was feeling, and the juxtaposition of it made her feel worse about her situation rather than better.
She couldn't go on like this.
The stress of it paired with how ugly the situation had the potential to get just felt like too much to handle right now when she thought about how she was going to deal with everything.
Hannah didn't want to resign in a face-to-face conversation with Nathan.
It would just be too painful and would end in hurt feelings… most likely on her end rather than his based on the discoveries she had made lately about what his real personality was like.
“To think I had thought that there could be something real between us,” Hannah scoffed at the idea of it now.
Of course there were moments when she thought that it was a possibility, perhaps even a likelihood, that he had genuine feelings for her and that everything he was offering her and told her had a basis in reality.
Sadly, he turned out to be just another man full of unfulfilled promises and empty words just like most of the men she tended to give a chance to on the rare occasion that she decided to let her heart win over her mind.
She shook her head and stuffed the aerosol can into the cleaning tote and went to put it back in the supply closet before she called it quits for the last time.
Why on earth was she always having such terrible luck with her love life?
Wasn't she ever going to be able to find a man who actually cared about her rather than just being in it for the chase or with the sole intention of getting in between her legs?
Chapter Eighteen
When she came back from the supply closet and putting everything away she decided on going into Nathan's office.
She would just leave him her letter of resignation on his desk for when he came back to the penthouse, whenever
She had never been the kind of woman to give her body freely to any man who caught her interest.
Allowing him to seduce her may have been a mistake.
He had charm, appeal and the kind of personality and looks that made a girl's panties tie in a wet knot between her legs, but when it came down to how to treat a woman, Nathan Maxwell had obviously missed the day when God passed out that little handy piece of information.
Hannah was starting to think it would just be better to leave.
Of course she was now working in the penthouse, which meant that she would see Nathan a lot less than she would have if she were still working at the main house in The Serene Willow Estates but at least when she ran into him at the house there was a good chance of other people being around, and it would be less awkward and painful.
She could hide her feelings and her pain when others were around and she was working, being unprofessional and starting drama in her place of employment was never going to be something that she took part in.
But Hannah knew that if she was alone with him in the penthouse only two scenarios could come from that and both of them ended with her getting hurt by him again.
Either she would confront him about the way he had treated her and they would argue and he would tell her that she was free to go and she would lose her position or she would end up pushing all of those hurt feelings and negative thoughts back into the closet of her mind where she would deal with them on her own later, and she would end up having sex with him again.
Her intention had been to stay at the penthouse tonight in the one of the guest rooms like Nathan had told her she could when he first gave her the position.
She had a bag packed and it was sitting in the back seat of her car waiting for the end of the day to come so she could go get it and get settled into her new room for the night.
"Very bad idea," she told herself in a whisper as she finished up polishing one of the coffee tables.
The smell of Lemon Pledge filled the room with it's comforting brightness that was totally at odds with how she was feeling, and the juxtaposition of it made her feel worse about her situation rather than better.
She couldn't go on like this.
The stress of it paired with how ugly the situation had the potential to get just felt like too much to handle right now when she thought about how she was going to deal with everything.
Hannah didn't want to resign in a face-to-face conversation with Nathan.
It would just be too painful and would end in hurt feelings… most likely on her end rather than his based on the discoveries she had made lately about what his real personality was like.
“To think I had thought that there could be something real between us,” Hannah scoffed at the idea of it now.
Of course there were moments when she thought that it was a possibility, perhaps even a likelihood, that he had genuine feelings for her and that everything he was offering her and told her had a basis in reality.
Sadly, he turned out to be just another man full of unfulfilled promises and empty words just like most of the men she tended to give a chance to on the rare occasion that she decided to let her heart win over her mind.
She shook her head and stuffed the aerosol can into the cleaning tote and went to put it back in the supply closet before she called it quits for the last time.
Why on earth was she always having such terrible luck with her love life?
Wasn't she ever going to be able to find a man who actually cared about her rather than just being in it for the chase or with the sole intention of getting in between her legs?
Chapter Eighteen
When she came back from the supply closet and putting everything away she decided on going into Nathan's office.
She would just leave him her letter of resignation on his desk for when he came back to the penthouse, whenever
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