"I said I knew, Lettie." He muttered.
"Why didn't you say anything?" I gasped. "Oh my gosh, I feel like such a fool. I made a fool out of myself." I shook my head slowly.
"It's something huge Lettie, if you wanted to tell me or if it was so easy to tell me, you would have told me. I thought 'cause you haven't told me, it meant you weren't ready to. How would you have felt if I sprang it on you and said, 'hey, I know who you are.' I was just wondering by the way, what are you doing? It would have made me a douchebag."

"How did you find out? I know I haven't made any public appearance since I became a CEO, and before that I wasn't big on the whole media thing. So how? We haven't met before, I'm very certain."
"I can assure you that you are very wrong about that." He shook his head like he was so sure that he has met me before.

I placed my hand on my chin and recounted all my experiences since I became CEO, and I couldn't remember anytime I ran into Liam.
I didn't even know who he was facially until the whole bet thing happened, and I browsed him out.

"I'm positive. I can't remember meeting you."
He shook his head and smiled, "I don't know if you can remember but I met you at a banquet. You were the girl that was looking so confused that day at the gala, you..." He was saying, when he was interrupted by me.
"You were the one that tired my shoelace and held my hand till I found my parents?" I gasped.

Liam smiled widely, "You remember?"
I bobbed my head quickly, and smiled back forgetting the akwardness about the whole kiss thing.
"Of course I do. It was when that silly older sister of mine left me, claiming she was too cool to be seen with me, and then this nice kid walks up to me and offers to tie my shoelace and hold my hand till I find my parents so I don't get lost and scared. Of course I have to remember such a lovely memory. Wow! You are even hotter than before," I blushed when I suddenly realized that I said that out loud, and I attempted to rephrase my statement, "What I mean is, you most certainly look good." I corrected myself.

"Thank you. That day, I saw when your sister pushed you away, and how your lips trembled but what caught my young mind was no matter how shabby your sister treated you that day, you didn't shed a tear. Sure, you looked like you wanted to cry but you held yourself better than any ten-year old I have seen, and my twelve-year old was actually fascinated. See, I actually know you. This is one of the reason why we think we'll be good together. Please, just give me a chance." He pleaded as he looked at me hopefully.

Then the reality of things came back hitting me in the face, making me remember the situation at hand.

"I'm sorry but honestly you don't know me. You think you do but you don't. Simply staying with me when I was ten years old for less than two hours doesn't guarantee you know me. Plus you just ended a relationship, so it's wrong to enter another one barely three days after you ended one. Despite the fact that you knew who I was when I came to your office, and the reason why I did what I did, that doesn't make what I did nice." I concluded.

Liam looked like he wanted to say something but I held my hand up, "Please if you truly want to be with me, you'll give it a rest."
Liam bent his head and used his hands to support his head, then he massaged his head slightly with his hands. I felt so bad for causing him so much pain but I don't want anyone getting hurt.

Liam rose up slowly and started walking slowly towards my door, while I secretly pleaded in my heart that he doesn't walk away from me forever. It felt like he heard thoughts as he paused at the door and turned to face me, "How long do you think you need?" He asked.
I shook my head and smiled sadly, "It's actually how much time you need. Do you still want to be with someone who didn't tell you the truth for three months?" I asked, hoping secretly that he would say yes.

"How much time do you think you need?" He asked like he didn't hear me.
"Well, I'll give you two weeks to think if you want to be with someone like me." I replied, also ignoring his statement.
He nodded and walked out, not before muttering that our flight is due in two hours.

I gave him two weeks 'cause I already knew Liam was it for me. Like I'm very comfortable around him and all, he isn't like other people I've dated. He considers my needs before his, he cheers me up on terrible days and even one time when I had bad menstrual cramp at work, like my menstruation decided to be a major bitch and came out way earlier messing my day and embarrassing me by giving me the giant sign 'hey I'm a lady and this shit happens, but I was caught unprepared.' It was Liam that noticed it and pointed it out. He went to get tampons for me, a change to skirt and told the secretary to get me new undies. He told his secretary to cancel all meetings that day, 'cause I can't work with that much pain, no matter how much insisted I could, he didn't budge. I slept on the couch that day, and when I woke up, I met my head on his lap, and his only reply was 'you need to be comfortable.'

Another incident was when we went to another resort company for a business merger and I was dressed in a corporate attire, actually a suit. I was wearing a skirt and the CEO of the company, a grown ass man of sixty decided to be stupid and said, "Your p.a is so sexy Mr Jones. You sure know how to pick them. Although if you ask me, your new p.a looks better than the other one. This one is..." Liam cut him off mid-sentence, "It seems Mr Matthews you have forgotten the purpose of this meeting. It's a business meeting, not a 'assess Liam's secretary assets.' So please let's be properly guided." Liam looked like he wanted to murder Mr Matthews, if looks could kill, he would have been six feet underground.

Me Matthews didn't deter and continued after some time, "I mean Liam just look at her, she just looks divine. Like a heavenly snack." He said and licked his lips, Eww.

"Mr Matthews, I'll suggest my p.a and I come back when you are more business oriented, and not raving about my p.a's body, and also ready to apologize to my p.a for those comments. Let's go Lettie, " He said as he gestured me to stand up. I didn't want to leave cause I didn't want to be the reason why the merger wouldn't hold, but when I saw Liam's angry stare, I got up like my butt was on fire. I hurriedly followed him as he started walking out of the office, when he unexpectedly stopped and looked back.

"Oh, and I forgot to say this. I looked at your company's financial status, your accounts are going into the red zone and without this deal you'll be in the red in three weeks, so if I were you, which thank God I'm not, I'll think of an apology before then. Have a lovely day." Liam said, as he gestured me to move ahead of him, probably protecting my poor butt from Mr Matthews penetrating gaze.

"Who the hell does he think he is? How dare him talk about your body like you are a sex object?" Liam fumed angrily as we left the company.
I smiled and said, "I'm used to it. People do it all the time."
Liam glanced at me with surprise, "You get these kind of comments everytime?"
I nodded my head and smiled sadly, "I can't help it that when people look at me, they immediately think I'm the perfect sex tool."

"Well, this is the first time I'm seeing this and anybody who says such a thing to my hearing, I'll make an example out of the person. Forget his stupid apology, I'm not going to sign with his company. His company is even failing, the merger was supposed to help his company not ours. He just had to be stupid and talk about you in that derogatory way, such... such, " Liam stammered in anger. I placed my hand in his as I squeezed it lightly, "Trust me, it's fine. Don't get worked up."

"I hate it. You know what?" Liam said placing his finger on his chin in thought, "You will start wearing Jeans to work." Liam said triumphantly like he just declared the cure to cancer, while I gasped.
"Jeans is not a professional wear. What will people think of me?"
"I'm the boss and I make the rules, " I was about to speak but he silenced me, "My decision is final Lettie. Nobody will disrespect you, not on my watch." He concluded.

That was the first time someone stood up for me that way. I have had numerous boyfriends and I have come close to the altar twice but none of them actually stood up for me that way, and someone who wasn't even dating me, stood up for me. Even to the extent of cancelling a business merger.
Memories like these make me question my action right now.

Did I do the right thing by pushing Liam away? Have I lost him forever? What if after two weeks, he decides he isn't cut out for my drama?
All these thoughts made me shiver in fear.

A/N- Who has ever known that a person was just 'it' for you and how did you find out?

I'm a romance writer but I haven't found love yet. How ironic.😅

Who has found love and isn't living her love life off her characters like me?