He nodded, tears in his eyes. “I have loved you since the end of that first week of work. You’ve taught me a lot, about being a man and a lover. But the boss part—that was all me.”
She laughed. “My god, I had never had a boss like you before.”
“Good thing or you’d be living with him!”
“Yeah, maybe. You took me by surprise, that’s for sure. I wasn’t sure which way I was going there for a while.”
“And now?”
“Now, I feel like two halves of the same coin. You challenge me, you love me, you take care of me.” Her eyes twinkling, she added, “What more could a girl want?”