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Dominic places the ring on my finger and pulls me up for a quick kiss. Then he leads me outside.
“Wait a minute!” My grandmother calls from behind. “Get back here, young lady.”
I let out a breath and turn around. “Yes, Grandma?”
“You and I have a lot to talk about this weekend, so don’t go too far.” She steps closer and sighs. “I would’ve never let you go if I knew what really happened, hun. I’m so sorry.”
“Don’t be.” I look at Dominic. “It wasn’t that bad of an experience.”
She hugs me close and then she hugs Dominic.
“I have a lot to discuss with you, too, Mr. Reiss,” she says. “Same rules of not going too far apply.”
“Understood.”
I wait until she walks away before looking up at him again.
“Thank you, Dominic,” I say. “Thank you so fucking much.”
“For what?”
“Saving me from having to tell the complete truth about us in there.”
“That was the real truth, Georgia.”
“Even the part about you loving me?”
“That’s quite obvious.” He leans over and kisses me, saving me from wasting time on a conversation, kissing me until I can’t breathe.
TWENTY-TWO
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
DOMINIC
“What do you mean you’re staying foranotherweek?” Paul yells at me via FaceTime. “Have you lost your mind?”
“I’m doing what you said,” I say. “Going above and beyond for the client.”
“Unless the client is Georgia Grey from last year, you need to tell the client her time is up and she’s full of shit. Her friends and family will just have to deal with whatever lie she concocted.”
I raise an eyebrow. “What do you mean unless she’s Georgia Grey?”
“We can discuss that when you’re on your way back to Utah,” he says. “Do I have to fly to Colorado personally and drag you back?”
“I want to hear why you think Georgia is the exception to me leaving.”
“Jesus Christ.” He rolls his eyes and tosses back a drink. “Let’s count the many ways, shall we? Actually, let’s just keep it simple with the obvious: you should’ve fired her after her first day, and then you should’ve asked her on a damn date.”
“I had my reasons.”
“Being attracted to her while being unable to seriously date anyone else aren’t good reasons.” He shakes his head. “Spare me the bullshit about her being a bad employee with the potential to turn it around.”
“She was.”
“Yeah okay,” he says. “And if she was so terrible, you would’ve been happy when she was gone. You moped for months like a fucking puppy.”
“I did not.”
