Page 15 of My Hottest Obsession

I try to hide my grin behind my hand as she storms in after me.

“Date?” She asks again, and I nod.

“Yeah, don’t worry. I’ll arrange everything for us for tonight.”

Including canceling my dinner plans with Theo and Levi. Once I tell them that it’s for a date with Goldie, they’ll understand.

“Tonight?” She half yells, and I nod.

“I don’t usually have to repeat myself. Are you feeling alright?” I ask her.

“Areyoufeeling alright?” She spits back, and I smirk.

“Never been better. I’m about to plan a date with the woman of my dreams.”

“You’re insane,” she says as she starts to back out of my office.

“Crazy for you.”

She just shakes her head at me, and I take a seat, pulling up a new browser and typing in Oaks. She’s been talking about this restaurant since it opened, and I know for a fact that she’s never gone.

I’ve thought of taking her there a million times. I’ve offered to at least a dozen times since they opened, but she always turned me down. Not this time. We’re finally having our first date tonight, and I want, no, Ineed, everything to be perfect.

I want tonight to be perfect for her. I want us to be able to look back at our first date when we’re old and gray and tell our grandkids about it.

I was always too busy building my company from the ground up to bother with dating. I wanted to be successful, and I guess I thought that everything else would fall into place later on.

Now I’m wondering if that was a mistake. Maybe if I had dated before, I would have more experience, and more of an idea of how to win Goldie over. Then again, no one has ever interested me except for Goldie. It’s always only been her and it always will be. She’s it for me.

And now I need to make her mine.

I grab my phone and call to make a reservation for two.

SEVEN

Goldie

When someone knockson my door, I expect it to be Lottie or one of my neighbors. No one else visits me here. I don’t have any siblings, and I haven’t talked to my mom since I left her house when I was eighteen.

“Coming!” I call as I toss my phone onto the couch cushions and stand to answer.

I smile as I open the door, but the smile drops when I see Adrien standing there.

“More flowers, Boss Man?” I ask him as he passes me a bouquet.

“I thought I would try tulips this time and see if you liked those more,” he says.

“They’re pretty.”

“But still not your favorite,” he says, and I smile.

“Nope.”

“I’m going to figure it out,” he tells me.

“Sure, Boss Man.”

He looks dressed up. Around the office, he only wears a suit and tie when he’s meeting with new clients. Usually, he’s in dress pants and a buttoned-up shirt, still dressed up, but not too stuffy. Tonight though, he’s wearing a black suit with a vest and tie.

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