My Dad's Rival

But there’s no time for more questions because my dad’s here already. He pops his head around my bedroom door, grinning wolfishly.

“Well? Did you get the internship?” That is the first thing he asks.

I sit up a little straighter and clear my throat.

“Yes.”

He whoops and then rushes over to kiss me on the top of my head. “That’s my girl. I knew you’d be able to do it. How was it? Did you meet the big man himself?”

“Yeah, I did…he seems…pleasant.”

He laughs. “Good one. So, was there a lot of competition? Did you beat the others easily?”

I hesitate. “Well, kind of. Wyatt said he wanted me as soon as I walked into the room.”

I wait to see if he picks up on any implication there, but he’s so busy celebrating this win that he doesn’t seem to notice the tension in my voice, the nerves on my face, or the way I fidget with my hands. He sighs, shaking his head with a grin on his face.

“This is brilliant. We’re finally going to be able to take Wyatt Callaghan down for good. And it’s all because I have the best daughter in the world.”

“Dad…is this the right thing to do? Are you sure about this?” I have to ask.

“I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life,” he declares. I sigh. My thoughts exactly, I don’t know exactly what I was expecting. But I’ve never been more sure that I want to pursue something in my life…and what I want to pursue is Wyatt.

I’ve made up my mind. I need to get closer to Wyatt.

I have to know whether there’s something there. I’m willing to risk everything for this chance, as they say, there is no risk without a reward or so I think the saying goes. After all, my relationship with my dad is on the line.

And so is my heart.

CHAPTER FOUR

Wyatt

It’s been nearly twenty-four hours. Nearly twenty-four hours without her beside me. My body is rigid with tension, and my cock has been throbbing painfully since I met her.

Lucy…

She’s everything that I’ve been waiting for all my life. The reason I held off from settling with any other woman. I knew she’d come along someday.

The woman of my dreams.

And boy, did she fill my dreams last night. I imagined taking her body in every single position imaginable. The places on her body that I’d explore with my hands, my lips, my tongue. But when I woke up, there was no relief, because my bed was empty.

I need to make her mine.

It doesn’t matter that I barely know a thing about her. It doesn’t matter that she’s at least half my age.

Forget that she’s my employee and it makes this a taboo fantasy.

I want her, and I’m going to have her.

She hasn’t even arrived for her first day soon, and I already know it’s going to be almost impossible to keep my hands off her. Yesterday when we met, my eyes couldn’t tear away from her luscious body. She awoke the animal inside me and it’s been restless ever since, desperate to make its move.

But I have to do this right. This isn’t just some woman that I want to sleep with, even though my thoughts can’t seem to stray from the things I want to do to her body. This means more than just sex to me. I know this woman is an important part of my future. She’s the woman I want to make babies with. The woman I want to wake up to every day. And because of that, there’s a delicate balance to this I have to let her know I’m interested without scaring her off. I have to make her see that she belongs to me without coming on too strong, too intense, or risk scaring her off.

So that’s why I plan to ask her out to dinner tonight. I’ll tell her that it’s a business dinner to discuss her future and job prospects…and maybe we can talk about that a little, but my true intention will be to get to know her better. And by the time dinner is over, I’ll know whether or not it’s the right time to make my move on her.

Maybe I’m moving too fast, but I’ve spent the last forty years waiting for the woman of my dreams to come along. Now that she’s here, I don’t want to waste a single moment. Hell, maybe she’s already taken. But that won’t stop me. I’ll fight tooth and nail for her if I have to. No other man is any match for me.

If it comes to it, I'll gladly take on any competitor that I come across. I’ll prove to her that I’m the only man worth her time.

Maybe I’m being overconfident. Perhaps she doesn’t even see me this way. After all, she came to me looking for an internship, not for a lifetime partner. But there was something in the way she looked at me. There was an innocence behind her confident persona, and I think she’s looking for me to cure it. Show her the way.