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It's hard for me to look at him without feeling love and excitement and joy. I just want to kiss him, to touch him, but I know I need to stop. I know I cannot allow these feelings to grow anymore.
"Please, Skye, just five minutes."
"Why should I give you five minutes?"
"Because I love you," he says. "And I am hoping you love me too. I'm hoping you're going to forgive me for being an idiot. I'm hoping that you're going to forgive me for saying I think it's okay for you to go on that dating show because hell no I'm not okay with it."
"What?" My heart stops.
"I love you, Skye," he says loudly, and a woman to the right looks at us.
"He said he loves you. You need a hearing aid or something?"
"No. Thank you." I look over at him. "Are you for real? Is this because you're jealous now that I'm going to meet someone new or..."
"Skye, we spent the last two months dating and sleeping together and being together and working together and I've loved every moment of it. I love spending time with you. I love being with you. I love touching you. I love you sleeping over. I love your little snores."
"I don't snore. I mean, loudly."
He grins. "And I love your little jokes about the engagement ring. So much so that I want to get you a ring.”
My jaw drops.
"What?"
"Not an engagement ring," he says quickly. "A promise ring. A promise that I am ready to be committed. A promise that I want you to be my girlfriend. A promise that I want this to be official. I want everyone in the office to know. I want everyone in the world to know that I love you. I want to make this something real. I want to make this something special. I want you to know that I was a fool when I said to you we were never going to end up like Max and Lila. I was a fool when I told you not to get your hopes up. And you know what?"
"What?" I say.
"I think I was saying it because I wanted a reaction. I think I was saying it because I wanted to see what you would do or think or feel. I wanted to know if you felt that spark that I felt from the very beginning."
"You felt a spark from the very beginning?"
"From the first time I laid eyes on you." He grins. "Why do you think I hired you?"
"Because of my brilliant resumé."
He bursts out laughing then. "Your resumé was not all that."
"But you said that Max made a huge mistake by hiring Lila and you wouldn't do such a thing."
"I say a lot of things." He grins. "Doesn't mean they're always true."
"So you love me?"
"I do," he says. "And what about you?"
"What about me?" I ask him, teasingly.
"How do you feel about me?"
"I love you, you goof. Of course I love you." I wrap my arms around his neck. "I have loved you for ages now and I just love being with you and touching you and kissing you and I felt like a fool for falling for the man that told me to never fall for him."
"I guess we were both fools, but I'm glad you're a fool too." He grins. "Makes me feel better about myself."
"It should make you feel better about yourself. So, were you serious about the ring or was that a joke?"
He bursts out laughing. "I'm serious, and guess what?"
