Chapter 55

• "Good girl" I tell her softly, reaching my free hand to tuck some loose hair behind her ear. It's weird to me how much I like doing that, how much I like seeing a blush rise on her cheeks or hearing her sweet little laugh. Things have been turbulent for us, and that's definitely my fault. It's been way more complicated than any other arrangement I have had in the past. Most of my other arrangements have been pretty void of any conflict; because I set up boundaries before anything even began. There is a whole clause of the contract that I had removed before Amelia even saw it that basically states the lay of the land. You go to events with me, pleasure me, I pay you, and it ends when the contract finishes.
• I get bored easily, I've never signed a contract longer than 3 months, always afraid that something sweeter will come along while I'm tethered to someone else. I thought for sure Amelia would be the same thing, despite Grace's assurances that Amelia would be something new for me. I'm a business man; my job is to make deals and get people to do what I want, and god knows I love a challenge. I thought for sure, I can definitely take this young naive girl and she will become what I need her to be with a little bit of convincing. But each day that I spend with her; instead of changing her, I think that she's changing me.
• "Stay the night with me tonight" I tell her. I don't want to force her into spending the night with me, of course I would never make her do things that she wasn't ready for. I just want her to spend time with me.