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“I guess so.”
I just laid there, still in her arms, until she began to breathe more easily and her hand fell from my hair. I slowly moved off her and laid beside her, watching her sleep.
Her mouth was slightly open and she’d start snoring soon, but I couldn’t help finding her beautiful anyway. I rolled onto my back and sighed.
What the fuck was I going to do?
My phone buzzed, and when I picked it up, there was a text from Richard:My office. Now.
Fuck.
He knew about Magda and was about to tear me a new one. I groaned and got up out of bed as quietly as I could, not wanting to wake Magda up now. I didn’t know what to say to her. I just left after getting dressed in casual clothes, this time without even leaving a note.
Richard’s door was shut for the first time ever, so I knocked timidly instead of bursting in like I normally would. I wasn’t exactly afraid of my best friend, but I knew from experience in playing hockey with him that he had a great left hook.
"Come in,” he called, and I slowly opened the door.
Richard was sitting behind the desk with a dark expression on his face.
“Richard,” I started, and he held up a hand.
“Don’t start that with me,” he barked, and I shut my mouth. I didn’t want to get into a fight with my best friend. Especially since I was definitely in the wrong. “You’ve been sleeping with my daughter.”
“In my defense, I didn’t know she was your daughter—”
“Oh, is that why you left with her?” Richard snarked, and then he did something I wouldn’t have imagined. He smiled. “I was hoping this would happen.”
“What?” I asked, shocked.
“I thought you needed someone to ground you, help you settle down again. I’ve been setting you up left and right and nothing. You needed someone who was more of a shark than you were.”
“You set me up with your daughter?” I asked incredulously, shaking my head. Richardhadbeen trying to set me up, but I didn’t know that he was that serious about it.
“Magda is old enough to make her own decisions,” he said. “But I knew that you two would be good for each other. I just wanted to touch base with you and make sure your intentions are pure.”
I snorted. My intentions had not at all been pure when I started sleeping with Magda, but I supposed that things had changed...
It didn’t matter. She’d betrayed me.
“She lied to me,” I said simply, and Richard scoffed.
“So? People lie all the time. We’relawyers, you should know that.”
“I don’t lie to the people I care about,” I said staunchly, and Richard looked me up and down.
“So you care about her?”
“I didn’t say that,” I said, flustered, but Richard was grinning.
“Youdocare about her.”
I looked away from him. “It doesn’t matter.”
“Do you know how hard it is to be a woman in her early twenties at a law firm?” Richard asked, and I looked up at him, surprised.
“Sure, but—”
“By now the whole office is buzzing about how Magda is sleeping with a partner, how I’m her father and she got this job because of me. Do you know what that’s going to do to her? To her self-esteem, her mood?”
