Dragan Armansky had given her a second chance at her job, but not without conditions. She would have to tell him before leaving the country or taking an extended leave of absence and notify him how long she would be gone. She didn't have to ask permission to leave, just had to notify him when she was doing the leaving. She supposed that he hadn't ordered her to ask for time off because he knew she would walk away from the deal, and as much as he loathed not being able to watch over her all the time part of the time was better than none. Armansky was still try to act as protector and father figure. Now more than ever since he had found out what Lisbeth had gone through all her life. She understood his need to do this, but it still was met with her wanting to run away and make her own rules.
Armansky could be considered one of her friends, but he was the pushy sort of friend that felt the need to protect and get involved in someone's life. That was not how Salander lived. She was like an alley cat, needing no one and hissing at anyone that got too close. Try to pet her and she would scratch you. But she wasn't scratching now. She was quietly sitting and listening to Armansky name all his conditions for her coming back to work for Milton. They were all pretty reasonable and still gave her a lot more room than any other employee at Milton. If anyone else had tried the things she had gotten away with they would have been fired.
Besides the basic rules of let him know when she was coming or going there was also the standing on her hacking. Now that he knew how she had gotten half her information he didn't really know what to do about it. He said that as long as she covered her tracks better and didn't get caught he didn't really see it as his business to tell her what to do. Also the was to be no more hacking into the company computers unless they needed a background check on employees. This would be the hardest for her to do. She didn't think that she could not hack the computers. She had a need to know what was going on in the company, and hacking the computers was the easiest way. She would just have to be more careful about doing it since Armansky had put cameras up in every corridor and had tightened security measures. She still thought it was manageable if she could get a few passwords of people with higher clearance than her.
After the rules were laid out, Dragan actually had her sign a contract stating that failure to comply with these measures would result in immediate termination. She read over it, and signed. Her first job would be starting later in the week, doing background checks on employees. That wouldn't take her very long, so she planned to get started on her own little project of acquiring passwords right away.