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“Joseph? What are you doing here?” she asked.
“Same thing I want to ask you,” he replied as he approached her. He kneeled down on one knee and took her hands into his. “How could you leave me like that?” he asked.
“I had to.” Olivia started crying. “I couldn’t let you just give up on your company like that.”
“That means nothing to me without you.” Joseph searched Olivia’s eyes.
“It was all too much. I thought I could handle it, but I could not. It was hard living with Daaliyah and her daughters. It was hard knowing that your mother hated me, and now she wanted you to marry Hudah. It was all too much for me.”
“I get it,” said Joseph. “I hadn’t been fair. I said I would protect you but I failed.”
“It’s not your fault. You did the best you could do.”
Joseph shook his head. “I don’t want to marry Hudah. I don’t want to inherit the company at the price of losing you. I don’t want to lose you, I can’t, Olivia. I need you.”
Olivia could see sincerity in Joseph’s eyes. She needed him too.
“Joseph,” she whispered. She held his face in the palm of her hands.
“I love you, Olivia Grant. You have taught me what it means to love someone and to be loved. If my parents can’t accept that, then I don’t care. I can settle down in Atlanta and start my life here, with you.”
“What will you do?” she asked him.
“I don’t know but at least I will be with you.”
“Joseph, you cannot just up and leave your life. You cannot give up on everything just for me. I will not allow you to do that,” she yelled.
“I can and I have. I love you, damnit, and no one will stop me from marrying you. I am not going back home just to marry a woman I do not love. I am not going anywhere without you. So you are just going to have to deal with it,” he said. Olivia started laughing and sniffling. He started laughing with her too.
“Okay,” she said and laughed. “I love you.” He was the first man she had ever said those words to.
“I love you too,” he said and kissed her. She was so happy that he had come for her. She had not expected it at all. Daya laughed and clapped.
“The pair of you are so odd but adorable,” she said with her hand on her heart. Olivia smiled and laid her head on Joseph’s shoulder.
“I am so happy,” she said.
