“I’ve felt it every day.” I reached across the desk and held out my hand. “I don’t want there to be distance between us. In fact, where you’re sitting now is even too far away.”
A tear dripped down her cheek as she clasped our fingers together and said, “When you love someone, you fight.”
Damn it. I felt that one.
It hit.
And then it hit again.
“With the way men are attracted to you, it looks like I’ll be fighting for the woman I love for the rest of my life.” I clenched my jaw and growled, “Now, go lock my door.”
She laughed.
It was the best sound I’d ever heard.
“You have a meeting in ten minutes, followed by another meeting forty-five minutes later. I’ll be gone before the first one is even over.”
“Cancel both.”
“Ford will gut me if I do that.” She wiped her cheeks, the tears
