“I know, I know.” Throwing my hands up, I sigh. “I’m not going to marry him, don’t worry. He’ll move here on his own merit, and then you’ll meet him.”
I can’t wait.
21
LUKE
APRIL
My life right now consists of waiting and not much else. Waiting for HR to send my location change request to Ajay. Waiting for Ajay to sign off on my location change request. Waiting to finally,finally, move to Sweden and be with Erik.
Because I don’t want Ajay to get annoyed with me, I’ve only asked him for a status update twice. In his words, HR is taking their sweet ass time reviewing my application, but I’ll be the first to know of any news on the file.
One thing that I’m not waiting for, but is still more than welcome, is a text from James.
James Hernandez
Hey man I’ll be in Toronto for the season opener this week. You should come to one of the games and hang out after if you’re free
Hey, I’m down!
Does Friday work?
Kinda slammed with work so idk if I can make Thursday
Alright I’ll snag a ticket for you and anyone else you wanna bring
Can grab dinner w me and Ethan after too
Then I get an idea. Emily is still living at home, and this is a chance to lure her to the city.
Hey I can get tickets to the Toronto-Boston game on Friday, do you want to come?
Emily
Omg yes if it’s at 7 I can take the train in
Idk if I want to stay too late though
OK, sounds good. Feel free to crash at mine if you’d like
I have something to look forward to, but it’s in three days, so it’s back to waiting for me.
Friday rolls around and I’m tapping my fingers on the desk, mentally counting down the hours until I can log off for the weekend. It’s getting warmer, the days are longer, and the last thing I want is to be stuck inside. To make things worse, there’s still no update from Ajay on?—
Hold up, he’s calling.
“Hi, Ajay, good afternoon. How are you?”
“Hey, Luke, I’m good. So, I’ll get right to it. I heard back from HR about your transfer plan.” His expression is the samepracticed, corporate one that gives me no clues at all as to what he’ll say next, so I hold my breath. “Essentially, since we have a global presence, all corporate-level positions can be performed wherever we have an office.”
I smile. “That’s great news! So?—”
“Not so fast,” he says.
Damn it.
“The catch is that if you want to work from somewhere, you either need to have the permanent right to live there, or the company needs to have a business rationale for visa sponsorship.”
