The Executive's Decision
“She’d run the gamut of every emotion she’d ever had, and it had drained her. Lunch had turned into dinner and another walk through the roses. She wondered if Audrey would notice the one missing bloom Zach had cut for her and tucked behind her ear as he kissed her in the moonlit rose garden.
Carlos had waited up for her. He smiled when he saw her walk through the door with a smile on her lips and the rose tucked behind her ear.
“He caught you.”
“Yes he did.” She managed to beam through the tangle of fear that still penetrated her.
“You’ll be okay.” He kissed her cheek.
“It’ll be different,” she said as a warning and a promise to herself.
The next evening Zach arrived at exactly at six as she’d asked him to. She sat waiting on the steps as he pulled to the curb.
He climbed from the car and walked up the front steps. “I would have come all the way to the door.” He slid his arms around her waist.
“I know, but I wanted to watch for you.” She loosened the tie around his neck and pulled it off.
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