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Charlize: Okay, I get all that, but tell me, would we have met if not for fate?
Owen: Yes. You were in that bathroom screaming on your deathbed. I was walking past. My action to go into the bathroom meant I met you.
Charlize: But it wasn’t your action that ensured I was in that bathroom.
Owen: That was good timing. I believe in timing.
Charlize: It was fate!
Owen: So, you’re saying we were predetermined by a greater power? I could get behind that.
Charlize: I see what you just did.
Owen: What are you doing for breakfast?
I stop breathing for a second while I read his text and re-read it.
Charlize: I have a room service date for breakfast.
Owen: If you decide you’d like company for that date, I’m free.
Charlize: Goodnight, Owen.
Owen: Goodnight, beautiful.
I go back toThe Notebook, but I can’t continue watching it.
I can’t focus.
Not when all I can think about is the man who is deliberately going out of his way to make me his.
The man who always seems to know what I need.
The man who owns my heart.
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Charlize
Iwake to a knock on my door at 7:00 a.m. and find Owen standing on the other side. He’s dressed casually again and is holding two coffees.
“I thought you were happy to take this slow,” I say.
“I am, but to do that we need to spend time together.”
“I’m busy today, Owen. I have to find somewhere to live.”
“I have a car and a driver. I can take you anywhere you need to go.”
I look at the coffees in his hand, demanding, “Which one is mine?” I take the one he offers. “And just so you’re aware, you’re being very bossy today.”
He leans in close. “This isn’t anywhere near bossy, Charlize, but I can make that happen if you’d like.” With that, he finds his way into my hotel room and to one of the chairs.
I stay where I am near the door.
I sip some coffee.
I try not to look at the top two buttons of his button-down that are undone.
