Asking for Trouble
“she asked him the next morning while they were eating breakfast. Not too romantic—oatmeal—but she’d seemed fine with it. No matter what she thought, she was nowhere near high-maintenance.
He looked at her cautiously, hesitated.
“You have work to do,” she realized.
“I really do have to get that app to Michael today,” he explained. “I’m sorry, but I do.”
“Can I say something?” she asked, and he tensed, waiting for it. “I get that you have to work hard,” she said, her face serious for once. “I get that you want to work hard. I’m not going to ask you to take every weekend off. You couldn’t even if you wanted to, and I know it.”
“You do?”
“Of course I do. It’s who you are. You’re driven, just like Alec, and you love what you do. I admire that. Really, I do. All I want is for you to put me first when you say you will. I want to be able to count on that, so if you say we’re going to dinner, that means we’re going, not that maybe we will and maybe we won’t, if something important comes up.”
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