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I wasn’t sure how to respond. He’d never even come close to having a personal and vulnerable conversation with me. Nor had I for that matter, with someone higher up than me.
“Sir, I would never make a joke over something like this,” I said.
He sighed and rubbed his eyes. “This is just not how I expected things to go this evening.”
I waited for him to continue, but he remained silent. My own recent failed proposal popped in my head, and I felt something nudge me to tell him the story.
My heart raced. I don’t think I had told anyone the story beside Maria. I was usually the type to keep things bottled up nice and tight inside. I hesitated for a moment. He seemed like he needed to hear he wasn’t alone in his romance woes. “Well, I had a somewhat similar evening fairly recently. At least, as far as it not going as planned with a significant other.”
He sat up and turned his head to look at me, “Oh?”
I squirted more ointment into my hand and applied it to his back as I recalled that evening. “Before a trip I took recently with my boyfriend, I had found a ring that he had purchased. Well, I knew what that meant. But it turned out that he hadn’t bought the ring for me. He had bought it for someone else,” I couldn’t bring myself to say it was for my sister. “And then he proposed to her right in front of me.”
Logan’s expression remained unchanged while I told him the story. He turned his face from me and looked at the floor across the room, lost in thought. There were several moments of silence before he said simply, “I’m sorry.”
“Me too,” I said. Then quietly, “Thank you.”
I put the cap back on the tube of ointment and handed it back to him. I walked over to a sink to wash my hands. When I returned, I saw Logan had pulled a t–shirt on. Was it possible that he was even better looking in these casual clothes than his suits?
He still seemed quiet and somber as we walked out of the locker room together.
“I think you’re very brave for what you did earlier tonight.” I said.
“Brave? How so?”
“You stood up for your wife. I think that’s what women dream of, having a man that will protect them like you did her,” I shrugged.
He gave a small nod, his thoughts still seeming to be far off. Suddenly he turned to me and held my eyes with his. “Thank you, Hazel.”
The way he said my name sent chills throughout my body. All I could do was nod in response.
“I’m going to get some rest. You should too,” he said, starting down the hall towards his office.
“Goodnight,” I said. He gave a small wave, and I watched him until he was out of sight.
The following Monday morning, I greeted Maria on my way to my desk.
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“Hey!” She gave me a hug. “How’s it going with the selection process for Logan’s assistant? I haven’t heard any updates in awhile.”
I’m not sure, actually,” I said. I had hoped that because of all the special assignments I had gotten that I was at the top of the list, but I didn’t really know for sure. He very well could’ve been giving the others special assignments too that I didn’t know about.
As though he had heard us talking about him, Logan appeared in the middle of the room. “Can I please have all of the candidates up for the position of my assistant please join me?”
I looked at Maria, who grabbed my hands excitedly.
7 have an important announcement to make.”