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dismissal, but I never thought I was going to be…

“I can have a new joint majority shareholder,” Eric says loudly, his booming voice making the whole room hush as he brings my hand to his lips and kisses it.

“If she’ll only agree to be my wife. If she marries me,” he says, and I feel my knees go weak as it registers what he really means, then feel him catching me. His face an inch from mine.

“Say yes, darling. Say you’ll be mine forever. Marry me.”

“Yes!” I hear myself breathe huskily. “With all my heart, yes.”

And the room erupts again, but this time it's cheers. Cheers for the lucky bridegroom and cheers for his blushing bride to be.

Epilogue

One Year Later

Eric

“So, let me get this straight,” she asks, rolling over as we both pant loudly from our second, or is it third time tonight?

I roll my eyes, then smile. Always wondering how Alyson manages to be fully focused when I make love to her, but still managing to mull over a hundred things while we do it.

It’s why I hired her, I guess.

Why I love her so much. She’s the perfect multitasker as well as the sexiest woman alive.

“You never even knew anything fishy was going on in your whole organization? Not until I came along?” she asks, and I can see the smile already playing at the corners of her mouth.

She likes to remind me every chance she gets, and I never get tired of it. I owe her everything because of it.

“None,” I tell her. “Without you coming along, I would’ve been broke in a year, probably sooner, the whole company stolen out from under me,” I tell her, in half-truth.

Okay, complete truth. The federal investigation that was apparently in the works, catapulted by the evidence of her recording was what set the ball rolling for a lot of bad people to be removed from my business.

Our business.

“Ha!” she exclaims and hooks her arms around me, and I pull her over to me, kissing her as I roll over on top of her again.

“Again!” she exclaims. My hardness pressing up against her, ready to keep going whenever she is.

“It is our wedding night,” I reason, but truth be told, once I get hard around Alyson, it’s usually an all-day or all-night affair until things finally simmer down.

It’s taken a while longer than I wanted, but I put a ring on Alyson’s finger as soon as we were both free enough to take a break.

Neither of us have any family to speak of and Alyson was positive she only wanted one thing: me. But she did want to spend some months setting herself up in her new position at work.

She loves her job and I have a hard time coping sometimes, trying to keep as much of her to myself as I can, but she’s learned to delegate and we always make time for our own private meetings, sometimes all day affairs.

“I don’t need or even want a big ceremony, Eric. Just make it official, and for god’s sake don’t put all that money in my name!” she said.

But I did. I have.

The legal department screamed prenup and half the board threatened to resign, the other half wanted to double down on their shareholdings, wanting more of a stake in the company over salary once they saw the vision Alyson had. Once they cottoned on to just how brilliant she is.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’d give it all up if it meant I could be with her. Business be damned, because my life’s nothing without Alyson.

Our life.

The life we’re making together now.

I was originally planning for the building she lived in to be her wedding present, but once I saw how clever she was, how much I actually needed her. I gave her what’s rightfully hers, half of everything.

Our life’s perfect, except for the one thing I know I can’t rush.

The one thing I secretly wish we’d both be blessed with, but hasn’t come yet.

Our own family.

After dozing for a bit, I lay in the gray, predawn light, thinking about our future family. I reach out for Alyson and frown when she’s not there next to me.

As much as I dislike travel, Alyson loves it, so Italy was her choice for our honeymoon and I willingly went along with it. Even the ramshackle, prehistoric villa we rented, I think she bought to stay in, overlooking an equally ancient village with its own courtyard and fountain.

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