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“Are you as carefree as you have seemed to be here? I wouldn’t have pictured you in jeans or wanting to sit on the beach. Based upon your job and all.”
“I can occasionally be casual, but work is mostly suits and not as lax. I will admit my place overlooks the bay, and while it’s a great place, I don’t take part in visiting much of what Seattle has to offer. Part of me feels us getting married that weekend was part of the plan for me, somehow. To let loose and to ease up on the working myself to death. I love what I do, but I also have noticed that I don’t take the time to enjoy my time when I’m not at work.”
“Since you work a lot, does that mean that you don’t make time for relationships?” she asks pulling apart but still sitting beside me looking out to the horizon.
“Not as much time as I should. I think that I’m understanding now that I have been greatly lacking in a few areas of my life. I have you to thank for that.” I say playfully, bumping my shoulder into hers.
“Why me?”
“Because, if it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have known that there was a deficiency in any of my life.”
“Oh wow, that’s a good line.” She smiles gazing ahead at the water as it breaks on the shore.
“I just thought of it myself, so, my question, you never answered, will you come to Seattle, maybe next weekend?”
“About that, I don’t know if you are aware, but I likely make a significantly less amount of money than you do, and I don’t just have expendable money to take last-minute trips. I plan out trips well in advance, like months in advance.”
“I realize that, and I’m prepared for it. Like you said, I make money, and considering the fact that I do not want to wait months to see you again after my week here is up, I will happily fund your trips to Seattle.”
“Sounds like a business transaction and so one way. Tell me, what is your plan here? We fly to one another every other weekend? You pay for everything, all the gallivanting—that just seems unfair.”
“Let’s play it weekend by weekend. I have to start driving back home on Sunday, to be back in the office Tuesday morning. How about this, a true test to any relationship is a road trip, any chance that you can take Friday and Monday off of work?”
Chapter Ten
“This one time I partied with the Mayor watched him fall off a stage drunk, get back to like a pro and then partied the rest of the night with Kool And The Gang!”
PEYTON
His question shocks me.
Hell, everything that he’s said to me since meeting him has shocked me.
He wants to date or get to know me. He doesn’t want to immediately put an end to whatever this is. This accidental marriage.
And now, he wants me to be in Seattle.
I’m not entirely sure if I could take the time off so soon, but every part of me wants to say yes.
“I just got this new event that I need to start, I don’t know if taking a four day weekend would be the smartest option right now.” I finally say.
“What if I told you that I can help you out with that?” He asks with a mischievous smile.
“I’m not following,” I look over to him.
“What if I told you that I know the company who likely hired yours, or at least I have an idea of a few companies who may have hired you?”
“What?” My mouth drops open and my head swings his way.
“I suggested your company to a few of my clients as I was meeting with them this week. You know what I do, right?”
“You buy and sell companies.” I reply robotically.
“In about 90% of the companies that I work with, they are looking to throw events after their final steps of the takeover, it’s a rebranding or relaunching of the new company. Since now, I know someone specifically in that business, and especially here in LA, I can refer these events to your company.”
“Are you the reason why I was named as the planner for the one that I was assigned?” I ask, feeling my anger boiling.
I don’t need any handouts and I definitely do not need him interfering with my job.
