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anything, but I knew I’d never see her again.”
    She cried for some time, her shoulders tensing and easing with the sobs, and he felt his heart begin to ache and mend in his chest. If she was willing to open up to him about what had happened to her, he felt he had to reciprocate.
    “At the office, a few years ago, I dated a woman. It was going well, and I was even thinking about asking her to move in. Until one day I found her with another man a few floors down, late at night, with his face between her breasts and his hand up her skirt. I broke it up thinking the man was raping her, but I was blind at the time. When I looked at the video after a colleague informed me she’d been cheating on me, I realized the man hadn’t been coming on to her without consent.
    I fired the man. He sued and lost because intercourse in the workplace was strictly forbidden, so I won the lawsuit. But a week later, when I broke up with the woman, she sued me and claimed I’d raped her. It was a long, drawn-out court case that was luckily kept under wraps by a highly skilled lawyer and a discreet judge, but it tarnished me. It tarnished my reputation. There were whispers that I’d indeed raped her and I’d paid her off to be quiet. She quit, I didn’t fire her, but everyone said I’d pressured her to quit.
    I installed the glass windows to my office a week after she quit. I installed the button that would make the glass opaque at the same time. I hired Julia because I knew she wouldn’t put up with any of that bullshit from the other employees, but it still hurt to know they thought of me that way. I’m sure some of them still do. Some women still try. Before I left and met you, I’d been falsely accused again. It happens a few times a year, but they rarely go to court anymore because there isn’t evidence, but it still hurts.
    Sometimes I wonder if they’re watching me, wondering about what I do in my spare time. I wonder if they think I’m dating Julia. In fact, I know some of them do. Then I tell myself it doesn’t matter because I have you. I have you to come home to now. I have you to hold me when I feel like the world wants to crush me. People believe I’m not human because I have money, but it makes me even more of a target for unwanted whispers and accusations. I feel human when I’m with you, Aiyana.”
    They sat on the couch for a long time in silence after he finished. He wanted to ease the hurt in her, and he sensed that she wanted to ease some of the hurt in him. He didn’t know how to help her, though. He didn’t know any other way to show her that he knew what she felt than to share with her the pains he’d felt.
    “I’m sorry,” he told her finally as he kissed the nape of her neck, pulling her closer to him. “I can look into it for you; see where she lives now and how she’s doing. I’d like to do that for you,” he felt her stiffen and thought he’d said the wrong thing, but when he turned around he saw awe in her eyes.
    “You’d do that for me?”
    Without hesitation, “Of course.”
    “I’m sorry you had to go through that. I guess we all have our pasts, but sometimes they just seem to be uglier than everyone else’s. I don’t want us to end up an ugly past.” She whispered the last part to him and he pulled her near him, showering her cheeks with kisses until she smiled.
    “You will never be ugly in my eyes. No matter what happens between us, I will always love you.” And she could tell he meant it. It frightened her and eased some of her worry at the same time.
    “We have to get ready,” she told him gently as she slid out of his arms. Blake missed the warmth she’d added to him, but he knew she was right. Besides, he knew Candice liked Aiyana, and hoped that by seeing some of his family was on their side, she’d stay with him.
    But he meant what he’d said. He’d love her no matter what happened with his mother. Even if she didn’t marry him, he’d still lie next to her at night