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She nods, and we both start brainstorming everything that needs to be done to pull off the best birthday party of the year. I normally try not to spoil my child, but after the last few months, he deserves to have a good time and be happy. Now if I can just stay on the topic at hand. Because the whole time, I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to convince my assistant she should be dating me.
I slam my fist onto my desk and lean over it, chest heaving. “I need her, dammit. It has nothing to do with her job here or anything else. I need her. For the last two years, she’s consumed my every thought, but I stayed away because she wasn’t dating… she wasn’t ready for a relationship.”
I need a plan. Lilian is going to be mine. She just doesn’t know it yet.
My whole body tenses, and I can feel the vein in my neck vibrating. “You asked her out? You asked my Lilian out?”
“But she’s like your daughter. I get it. I understand. Whatever you need to do, we’ll make it work.” I look at him with eyes wide. “You need an assistant… I can’t expect you to just hold my job for me. Not when everything is so in the air.” He laces our fingers together. “We’ll make it work. I completely understand your need to be there for Carrie. I would do the same for Ollie. But I want you to know, I’m not just going to let you go, Lilian. I need you.”
“For the last two years—since the day I hired you—I’ve had feelings for you. You said you didn’t date and now, out of the blue, you’re dating. I want to be the one you go on dates with.”
I’m not a fool. When she said she wanted to go swimming, I rented the other five rooms to keep this pool private.
Ford sticks his head out his office door. “I heard that, Lilian, and you can forget that happening. You’re
“What is it about me that makes people want to walk away from me? Everyone I loved or hell, thought I loved has walked away from me. My mom, my ex-wife. What makes it so damn easy to walk away from me?”
“You deserve happiness, Lilian. Even if you don’t choose me and Ollie, you deserve to be happy and go after what you want. I don’t want to hold you back. I want to give you everything you want. But it’s up to you now. I can’t force you to choose me. To choose us. But hear this—no one will love you like I do, Lilian. If me letting you go makes you happy, I’ll do it. Even if it kills me. I just want you to be happy.”
