Chapter 367

Boyfriend. Huh. They hadn’t had that conversation yet. He had fully meant to tell her that he wanted to do the whole boyfriend/girlfriend thing for real but then she got sick and Caitlyn died and it never seemed like the right time. After Friday night. After the fundraiser, he would take her out to dinner in a nice restaurant and he would lay it all on the table… well, not the bit about the clause and the possibility of losing his company, but all the rest. He would finally tell her how he really felt about her and that he wanted to be with her for real. Already it was hard to hold back the words when they were together. Those three little words that he had told himself he would never be able to say, let alone feel. As she lay snuggled in his arms at night and he stared down at her face, calm and serene in sleep, the words bubbled in his throat and he wanted to whisper them in her ear. But he was determined that the first time he told her he loved her would be with as much romance and