The Boss's Daughter

Awakening

As Jean hears the words that came out of her mother’s mouth, she collapses onto her sofa in her office. At that moment, Wayne is on his way down the hall and he freezes at seeing her so upset.

All Jean can say to her mother is “Let me call you back” as she hangs up the phone.

She bursts into tears. This is more than Wayne can take, in a moment, he is sitting next to Jean, holding her while she sobs into his chest.  

She can’t wrap her mind around how she is going to go on. Her father was her mentor. He was always bigger than life. She didn’t even realize that Wayne had come in until she began to gather her thoughts.

“Where did you come from?”

“I knew you might need me!”

“How did you know?” as she is looking into his eyes seeing pure love.

“Honestly?” he mumbles.

“Yes, I want to honestly know how you knew I would need you?”

“My heart ached and I knew that you needed me.”

At that moment, she wasn’t holding back, she kissed him so tenderly but, with so much passion, he was barely able to respond. He returned the passion as he kissed her back. They were locked in the most loving embrace for about ten minutes.

When they both came back from the lofty and lusty endeavor, they both had to catch their breath. 

“Wayne, what was that?” Jean finally says as she is trying to understand what just happened.

As the fog in his head is beginning to clear, “Jean, I have loved you for so long that I don’t remember when I didn’t. I wanted to show you that. I’m sorry that it happened like that. I was completely out of line.”

When she heard what he had to say, a smile crept across her usually pouty lips that she couldn't control. “Wayne, you have nothing to apologize for. I could feel the passion and I met it with my own. I’m only sorry that it has taken this long for me to show you how I feel.”

Jean couldn’t process everything at that moment. The love of her life just told her he loved her too, her father is dead, and the rollercoaster of emotions was just too much for her. Everything just goes black.

Wayne caught her before she fell to the floor. All he knew was he was not going to let her go. He carried her to the room they called “conference room 3”. Going directly to the thermostat, he entered the code. The wall opened up into a series of hospital rooms. He takes her into the first one and activates the call button.