EpilogueKathy“You ready?” Dylan grinned sitting across from me some thirty thousand feet up in the air on his private jet.“I don’t know,” I replied.Even though I had flown on his private jet many times now, there was something about it that I just didn’t get used to. We had recently celebrated one year together. One year together with a billionaire, and somehow, I still wasn’t fully used to all the luxury.“You’re going to love it,” he smiled at me, taking a sip out of his bubbly champagne.Dylan had flown me all over the world on this exact plane since we had been together. I had travelled to places I had never even dreamed of going to. Both of us loved to travel together. In a span of a year, we’d already made so many memories together.Every day I discovered something new about Dylan. And in a way, about myself too. He treated me with respect and care, better than anyone else had in my entire life.For my birthday this year, he decided to take me on a surprise trip.“Can you at
A sigh of relief escaped my lips and I opened the door for him immediately.“Dylan, what the hell are you doing at this hour?” I asked, wiping my forehead.He made his way inside my home.“What, did you think a serial killer was on to you?” he said, coming up to hug me.I wriggled myself out of his arms. “Dylan, you scared me for a bit. Did you just leave work?”I started to walk away from him, but he grabbed my hand and pull me back towards him.“Are you going to tell me why you have not been in touch all day?” he asked, his face inches away from mine.“I haven’t been ignoring you,” I tried to play innocent.“Really?” he raised an eyebrow. “I called you three times tonight. You didn’t pick up once.”“My phone was on silent,” I didn’t dare to meet his gaze, knowing that he’d call me out on my bluff instantly.He walked us both over to the sofa and then sat me on his lap..“Kathy,” he said, his voice low, “I know you’re lying to me. Tell me what’s wrong.”Just hearing him speak to me i
KathyMy boyfriend.Dylan was my boyfriend.No matter how many times I repeated it to myself, it still felt surreal.Sitting on the couch in my living room, I realized today was the first time I had been apart from Dylan since we had officially become boyfriend and girlfriend.For the last couple days, I had just crashed at his house and we hardly left the bed. Sex with him wasevenbetter now that we were in a relationship. I had lost count of how many times I had climaxed in the last 48 hours.And not to mention the aftercare. As a boyfriend, Dylan was incrediblycaring. I didn’t think I could love him more but I had fallen for him harder. We were not trying to hide our relationship in the office either. We remained professional at work but still went for coffee or lunch together when time permitted.Of course, most people at the office were surprised. Kevin was livid. But none of it really mattered. The only person whose opinion mattered to me now was Dylan.“Miss love-struck,” Sarah
“Kathy, I need you to listen to me carefully,” he looked as though he was gathering up the courage, “I think I am in love with you.”I thought my heart had stopped beating when he said that. I blinked twice, not sure if I heard correctly. I felt like I should be crying out of happiness but no sound came out of my mouth. I looked up to meet his gaze and his eyes showed such tenderness I had not seen before.“I am in love with you,” he repeated more firmly this time. “I have not been able to have a single thought that didn’t concern you after finding out that you had a date with Kevin tonight. It took me too long to realize this… but you are the one I want. No one else.”“You’re in love with me…?” I hesitated. “This is not a joke, right?”My heart was beating so fast that it could jump out of my chest at any moment. But Dylan was calm. He pulled his hand away from mine and placed it on my shoulder. His gaze was intense but felt warm.“No,” he assured me. “I mean it. Kathy, I love you.”
KathyReflecting on all the dubious choices I had made over the years, going on a date with a guy like Kevin topped the list. And yet, here I was, sitting across the table from him on what was supposed to be a ‘romantic dinner’.I admit, I wasn’t too excited to be here. When I kissed him, it felt like I had been kissing a piece of cardboard. He froze up immediately, and when he did kiss me back, he left a slobbery trail of saliva all over my mouth.Zero out of ten.But I couldn’t just back out of a date with him now. I did not want to. I wanted to prove something to Dylan. Ihadto show him that I wasn’t just going to be around him forever. And if I had to kiss a couple of frogs along the way, then so be it.“Let me order for you,” Kevin grinned. “I take all my dates to this restaurant. The owners know me by name.”How special.“Do I not get to pick for myself?” I asked.“Trust me, you will love what I’m about to order for you,” he winked.I knew that he was trying to assert himself aro
∞∞∞There was only so much TV one person could watch in a day to keep them from spiraling into unwanted thoughts. And I was at my limit. Sitting on my couch, I flitted through the channels on my TV screen.As mind-numbing as the entertainment was, it did give me a momentary reprieve from thinking about Kathy. After hours of torture, it was getting closer to evening and I couldn’t help but wonder what she must be up to now.Was she out having dinner with Kevin by now? I wondered if my sabotage attempts had worked at all, if Kevin was too swamped and had to call off their date. Wishful thinking, of course. My phone rang as soon as I put down the remote after finally turning off the TV screen. Hoping it to be a new form of distraction, I picked it up instantly without even checking the caller ID.“Dylan,” my mother’s sweet voice greeted me from the other end of the line.“Mom?” I sat up a little bit straighter on the sofa. “Is everything okay?”“I am glad you picked up,” she sounded reli