Page 39 of Owned By Two

Ever since I had arrived, I’d looked upon him only as someone who worked for my father.

Now, my mind shifted perspective, and I was surprised to find my head cocking to one side.

He was an attractive alien male, I thought.

He was tall, sharp, more…focusedthan Blor had been.

I shook my head.

I was probably seeing things that weren’t really there.

It was too easy to confuse service for attraction.

Besides, did Ireallywant to be the kind of boss who took advantage of her employees?

I pulled myself up.

A boss! Me!

The word didn’t seem to fit me, as I had never even worked as a manager before.

And now, somehow, I was meant to take charge of my father’sempire?

It was ridiculous!

My only qualification was that I was my father’s daughter.

And that was hardly enough.

No, I thought. Whatever happened to the business, it would be handled by an expert, someone trained in such things.

I would only observe it from the outside, from a distance.

I would let the experts take charge.

Then what would I do?I wondered.

Clearly, my father had immense wealth, so I supposed I could do pretty much anything I wanted…

I slumped back on the bed my ass melting into it.Oh…

Then I laid back and performed a kind of snow angel in the crisp white duvet.

I could do anything I wanted! Anything!

I would need to think about my goals for the future, what I wished to achieve…

And then realized that really, despite my change in wealth, my actual goals had not changed at all.

I still wished to get pregnant, to have a child and bring it up in a loving and caring family unit — even if that family unit only consisted of me and the child.

I would love the child in a way my father had never loved me.

I would raise the child the way my mother had raised me.

She had been a good, caring, and thoughtful mother…

Even if she had kept the truth from me about my father.

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