“I know I was naïve,” I said. “But I’m still glad everything happened the way it did.”
“Because you’re a secret masochist?”
“No,” I said. “Because now I can finally put my feelings for Seth behind me and try to move on. Maybe now I’ll be open to another man.”
“Even if you work for Seth?”
I gritted my teeth together as my resolve formed. “I shouldn’t have slinked away like some broken thing,” I said. “I should have stayed and proved to him that I could do my job, no matter what.”
“You still can,” he pointed out.
I nodded slowly, as I realized I could do that. I had given up too easily; I had let my emotions cloud my judgment. It was time to grow up and face Seth again. And maybe in facing him, I could also let him go.