Page 34 of Here's to Tomorrow

I just asked Rae on a date, even though I didn’t plan on ending this business meeting doing so, and she’s sitting here staring at me with a confused look on her face.

In reality, dating is the last thing I need to be adding to my hectic life, so maybe I shouldn’t have asked her, but…I wanted to. Ihadto. There’s no doubt in my mind now that I have to see where this…connection or whatever it is we have goes.

But she’s not saying anything. Maybe I jumped the gun? Maybe she doesn’t want to date me now…

Fuck. I’m her client now. That has to be it.

“Shit. Sorry. Just forget I said—”

“Yes.”

“—anything. It was a—wait, what?”

“I said yes, Hudson. I’d love to go out on a date with you. One that isn’t about a business project and that I can be prepared for. One that’s not with Maura or Tanner. Yes,” she says again.

“You said yes.”

She chuckles. “I did. Why are you so surprised? You asked me this on Friday night. I wasn’t going to let you off the hook with a business meeting/coffee date, you know.”

Her teasing eases the nerves racing through me. “You’re right. I don’t know. I just thought maybe you wouldn’t want to with us potentially working together.”

“Potentially? As if. I have you hook, line, and sinker and you know it.”

Though she means it in terms of business, she has me in other ways too. I don’t even know this girl but feel the strangest connection to her, like her car was meant to break down up the road from my shop, like she’s supposed to fit somewhere in my world, no matter how crazy it sounds.

I peer over at her to find her staring at me, her green eyes lit up with joy. “You do, Rae. You do.”

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