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“Yeah.”
“When?”
“Two weeks ago when I found out they hired you.”
“How much did that cost?”
He shrugs. “Few hundred million.”
“You bought this company…to talk to me?”
“What else was I going to do, corner you on the street? Stalk you?” He grins. “Plus I like to do things with flair. Catch you off guard.”
“Well congrats. You definitely caught me off guard.”
He lifts his hand away from my hip, and spins away from me. The ring I left on his desk sparkles, reflecting the rising sun.
“Here’s the thing,” he says, staring out the window, probably to purposefully give me a full view of him and how sexy he looks in that suit. “You ignited something in me, Indy. Something I thought was dead and over. I never thought I’d love again.”
He picks up the ring, and walks over to me. “So if you don’t love me? If you can’t get past the fact that I told you a grey lie--that I planned to clarify--well, you might as well hang on to this.” He walks over and hands me the ring, placing it in my palm. “I’ve loved and lost before you. But after this heartbreak I think I’m going to cash in my chips. I don’t want to try. You’ve wiggled your way under my skin. And I love you. I know that might sound insane.”
“It doesn’t,” I mutter, a whisper so low he probably can’t hear me.
“I love you, Indy,” he continues. “So yeah, I bought this company to surprise you. Sorry for firing you at the other place, by the way. Last month I did a return-on-investment analysis and it turned out you were actually one of the most profitable employees we had. Way to bring in that NCAA deal. Very nice.”
I feel my body start to tremble, overwhelmed by the emotions I’m feeling.
“I, I don’t know what to say.”
With a crooked index finger, he points my chin up at him. “Tell me you love me too. Because I sure as hell love you. And I want to do this dance. I’m serious. I was always trying to make you mine.” He slips a hand down the side of my skirt. “What do you say Indy?”
I pull out the stick from my purse.
“I say we look at this together.”
His eyes widen. “Holy shit. You’re…”
We look at it together. The “+” sign comes through.
His jaw drops.
“It’s yours,” I tell him.
“I know,” he says without hesitation.
“How do you know I didn’t sleep with Jansen? I mean I didn’t. We never got back together. I knew he was exaggerating the whole ‘I was attacked by Jack’s henchmen’ thing. I never bought it. I was just shocked that he actually found out the truth about something.”
Jack grins, his eyes darkening a smidge as he firms his grip on my ass. “I knew that you could never go back to Jansen once you got ruined by me.”
I moan into his mouth as he kisses me.
Suddenly, he pulls away.
“I want to show you something.”
“Oh?”
He nods, and takes me to the elevator. We pass the crowded lobby and head to the elevators at the back. We wait for a few seconds before the doors slide open, revealing a polished interior with a gleaming brass panel of buttons. Jack presses the button for the 27th floor, and the elevator starts moving smoothly upwards.
