Alastair
I was beyond nervous. It had taken me days to come up with this and while I wasn’t one to be this public, I wanted to do something special for Jacob. I didn’t want to just show up and ask him out. I wanted him to see that I was all in. I didn’t want him to assume anything. The front receptionist had smiled when she spotted me coming into Billora with a massive arrangement of flowers. She didn’t say a word as I nodded and walked right past her. A few workers saw me as they went about their business, and I was grateful none of them had stopped to ask questions. Everyone in Chasea knew how I felt about Jacob and while they hadn’t had a front-row seat to the lengths I had gone to, I could only hope they were rooting for me. I took the elevator up to the top floor and when the doors o
