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"Nor do I expect you to," he said with a warm smile.
I got down and adjusted myself.
"Ben, continue being a good person, okay? No matter what happens," I said to him. "You've already come so far while be being good. If you stopped, it would be terrible."
"I can't stop being good," he said. "Remember kids can tell if someone has a good heart. If Chloe realizes I'm no longer good, then I can kiss my relationship with her goodbye."
"I see you understand that much," I said. "If you ever need someone to sing your praise of call you a good boy, then don't hesitate to call for me," I added.
"I will, thanks," he said as I left the office.
I felt a little hurt that be stopped halfway…but maybe he had his own reasons.
Chapter ten
One Can Only Hold Back for so Long (part two)
Ben
I had tried my best to hold back. I wasn't kidding when I said I had endured enough. At one point, it felt like she dressed the way she did just to taunt me on purpose.
Imagine waking up in the morning with the sturdiest morning wood ever, and you see a beautiful woman with beautiful assets, wearing nothing but a wife beater and shorts like nothing would happen.
She trusted me too much and assumed that I wouldn't actually do anything. I was glad that we had finally talked about what had happened in London and we eventually… made up by making out. Although I wanted to cross that line like I did back in London, I decided to stop.
I knew I had desires for her and it was evident that she felt the same way; but the problem was, we weren't in London, anymore. In London, we were strangers.
There's no denying what I felt the moment I saw her there and even how I felt when she started staying with me in Richmond.
London didn't put us in a boss-employee relationship. We were just man and woman who wanted each other. But here in Richmond, I was her boss and she was my employee-technically, my brother's employee, but still.
It was already hard enough trying to ensure that no one found out that we were staying together; if there was any hint of intimacy between us, then… I don't know.
"I should have actually finished first before thinking about all this," I sighed as I stretched out on my chair.
She had smiled and acted like everything was okay, but I knew that I had hurt her pride. My phone started to ring. Ethan was calling. Stacy had left his company, and he had become a totally different person. A good thing, or a bad thing, I don't know.
"Hey," I answered.
"Hey. I've gotten a hotel available for Olivia to lodge in starting from tomorrow," he said.
That was one thing that was different. No playful greetings, or anything. Just straight to business. He had become Ian.
"That's good and all, but are you doing okay?" I asked.
"I'm okay," he replied.
"Define that, expand on what being okay means to you right now," I said as leaned back into the chair and waited for my little brother.
There was a long and heavy sigh, "I don't know."
"And that's okay," I said. "Just take your time and heal. I'd just find her if I were you."
"I'm not sure she'd want that," he said.
"You don't know that," I said, "Go get her."
"I'll try," he said. "So you'll tell her about the hotel right? I forgot to take her number so I can't contact her directly."
