that?” he said.
“the way you look at me, and the way you don’t look at me. aimes you were about to reach out your hand and touch me but stopped yourself.”
he smiled at her. “i re you’d bite off my hand if i laid a finger on you.”
she did not smile. she was waiting.
“lisbeth, i’m your boss, and everacted to you, i’d on it.”
she was still waiting.
“betweehere have been times wheracted to you. i ’t explain it, but that’s the way it is. for some reason i don’t really uand, i like you a lot. but it’s not a physig.”
“that’s good. because it’ll never happen.”
armansky laughed. the first time she had said something personal and it was the most disheartening news a man agine reg. he struggled to fi words.
“lisbeth, i uhat you’re ed in an old man of fifty plus.”
“i’m ed in an old man of fifty plus who’s my boss.” she held up a hand. “wait, let me speak. you’re sometimes stupid and maddeniic, but you’re a attra, and…i also feel…but you’re my boss a your wife and i want to keep my job with you, a idiotig i could do is get ih you.”
armansky said nothing, hardly darihe.
“i’m aware of what you’ve done for me, and i’m not ungrateful. i appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudid have given me a ce here. but i don’t want you for my lover, a my father.”
after a while armansky sighed helplessly. “what exactly do you want from me?”
“i want to ue w for you. if that’s ok with you.”
he hen answered her as holy as he could. “i really do want you to work for me. but i also want you to feel some sort of friendship and trust in me.”
she nodded.
“you’re not a person whes friendship,” he said. she seemed to withdraw, but he went ohat you don’t waerfering in your life, and i’ll try not to do that. but is it all right if i ue to like you?”
sala ab time. then she replied by getting up, walking around the desk, and giving him a hug. he was totally sholy when she released him did he take her hand.
“we be friends?”
she nodded once.
that was the only time she ever showed him any tehe only time she ever touched him. it was a moment that armansky fondly remembered.
after four years she had still vouchsafed hardly a detail about her private life round to armansky. once he applied his owhe pi on her. he also had a long talk with hren—who did not seem surprised to see him—and what he finally found out did rust in her. he ioned a word about this to her or let her know that he had been snooping into her life. instead he hid his uneasiness and iess.
before that strange evening was over, armansky and salander had e to a. in future she would do research proje on a freelance basis. she would receive a small monthly iher she did any assigs or not. the real money would be made when she er assig. she could ao; iurn she pledged o do anything that might embarrass him or risk subjeg miltoo sdal.
for armansky this was a solution that was advao him, the pany, and salander herself. he cut the troublesome pi department down to a siime employee, an ue who haily well a checks. all plicated or trimeuro salander aher freelancers who—i resort—were irailtoy had ao responsibility. since he regularly engaged her services, she earned a good salary. it could have been much higher, but salander worked only whe like it.
armaed her as she was, but she was the ts. today’s assig tion.
salander was dressed for the day in a black t-shirt i it of e.t. with fangs, and the words i am also an alien. she had on a black skirt that was frayed at the hem, a worn-out black, mid-leher jacket, rivet belt, heavy do boots, and horizontally striped, green-and-red knee socks. she had put on make-up in a e that indicated she might be d. in other words, she tio.
armansky sighed and shifted his gaze to the servatively dressed guest with the thick glasses. dirch frode, a lawyer, had iing and beio ask questions of the employee who prepared the report. armansky had done
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