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“Well, if it’s any consolation, the deal’s not done yet,” I clarified. “However, it shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks for the buyout to go through.”
Landry was looking at me like she might ask me to marry her again, and if she did, I’d still say yes. “So, you bought me a job.”
“I bought you a whole damn company if you think that you’re up to running it-”
“Yeah, no,” she choked out, laughing. “Baby steps, Rush.”
“If you want to remain an auditor, that’s fine with me,” I assured her. “If you’re interested in anything else, all you have to do is let me know.”
“That’s nepotism, Rush,” she chastised.
“Ask me if I give a fuck, Landry,” I retorted.
After a heartbeat of silence, she said, “I really want to ask you to marry me again.”
“The answer is yes,” I replied. “The answer will always be yes if you’re the one asking the question.”
“You know, we haven’t been dating long enough to exchange declarations of love,” she murmured, and it felt like my heart was going to beat out of my chest and land at her feet.
I leaned in closer as my hands gripped her hips. “I didn’t know there was a timeline that love was obligated to follow.”
Landry nodded. “There is for sane people.”
“Then it’s a good thing that I don’t think you’re all that sane, baby,” I quipped.
“You know, I can still reach your stapler,” she threatened.
“But if you bash me in the head, then how am I going to be able to fuck you over my desk?”
She started gnawing on her lower lip. “Well, you do make a compelling argument.”
“Landry?”
“Yeah?”
“I love you, baby,” I said, meaning every fucking word.
“And you say thatI’mthe crazy one,” she huffed, but she’d said it with a smile on her face.
Epilogue
Landry – (One Year Later)~
“This shit is not for the weak,” I muttered to myself, wondering how I could have made such a monumental decision without doing an in-depth survey. I mean, I knew that it wouldn’t be easy, but I hadn’t imagined torture.
Okay, so it wasn’talltorture. There’d been some exciting parts to this adventure, but not enough to outweigh the horrors of the experience. Plus, I was thirty-seven, not twenty-seven. My body wasn’t built to take on the world at no cost to my sanity. In fact, if you asked me, there should be some kind of training for this madness. Just like you had to train to run a marathon, you should have to train for anything that required incredible amounts of physical exertion.
“Seriously, this is stupid.”
“What hurts now?”
I turned to see Rush walking into my office, and though he’d put a lot of money into remodeling Jacobi Auditing, my office still felt small. I was still just an auditor, so nothing fancy for me, though that’s how I preferred it. Plus, maybe it wasn’t my office that was small, so much as I was a bit bigger.
“Everything,” I complained.
“Baby, it’s only been four months,” he said reasonably. “Everything can’t hurt just yet.”
Yep, you guessed it.
