Free Romance: Assistant to the Billionaire by Jodi Cooper

that much over the years.
    She still has long and curly brown hair and the brightest blue eyes.
    She doesn’t have a wrinkle on her face but it’s been rumored that she dabbles in botox, and from how her face doesn’t move that much I can see that rumor might have a little truth to it. I act like I’m into the file and doing some work while slightly eavesdropping in on their conversation.
    “So Rhett, sweetheart, I hear that you are making quite the impact around the office these days,” she says.
    “Yes, I decided to clean up my act,” he replies.
    “That’s good because I was worried about you honey. I didn’t know if, or when, you would ever come to your senses.”
    “Yeah, me either. But like I said I’ve decided to turn things around. But what I really need is a business manager. One who has my best interest in mind because I still think some of the partners are trying to get me out.”
    “Really? Even after you’ve been showing change?”
    “Yes, Mom. I know that they want me down and it’s not going to happen but I think I may have someone to come on my side. I just have to see if I can convince them to come on board.”
    “And why wouldn’t they?”
    “It’s complicated, Mom.”
    She nods her head. “I see. So when are you going to settle down with a nice young lady?”
    I almost choke but I pull it together really quickly and continue to listen.
    “Mom we’ve been over this. I’m not interested in talking to anyone you have in mind for me.”
    “I have someone else who is very pretty. Her name is…”
    “Mom. I’m not interested.”
    “Come on, honey. Don’t tell me that you’re still thinking about that piece of white trash that you dated.”
    “Mom! Emma was not ‘white trash’. And we haven’t been dating for two years!”
    “I’m just saying that you should meet some of the girls…”
    “I’m not interested Mom.”
    “They’re all nice girls Rhett. I think anyone of them could make you happy.”
    “Or make me miserable,” he mumbles under his breath.
    “I just think that you need a strong woman. One that will help you build up this company and not help you tear it down. A nice girl from a nice family. That’s all that I’m saying.”
    “Those girls are not my type.”
    “Come on Rhett. You have to find someone.”
    “Look Mom, you want me to date the perfect girl. Well, I am dating the perfect girl…”
    “Oh, she’s not trash, I hope?”
    “She not trash. She’s perfect,” Rhett takes a glance at me. “And she’s sitting right there at the kitchen table.”
    “Oh…” Vivian takes a look at me and I can do nothing but smile.
    “Yes, Jessica and I are dating and I really don’t care who knows about it right now,” Rhett states firmly. “She has been there for me in my darkest hour and has pulled me up. She’s the reason why I am able to run this company as well as I have. Without her, I’m pretty sure that the partners would’ve had me out already. So excuse me for not wanting to date any of the plastic girls that you keep sending my way!” he yells.
    A shocked expression crosses my face as I stare from him to his mother.
    I wait for her to get mad and yell at him for making the biggest mistake of his life but a small smile spreads across her face instead.
    “You have no idea how happy I am to hear that,” she says.
    “You are?” I ask.
    “Of course. I knew that you would be the right girl for Rhett the moment your Mom asked me to help you land the interview. You’re outgoing, smart, strong, and I knew that you wouldn’t take any crap from him. I knew that you were just what he needed and I’m just glad to see that I wasn’t wrong,” she says.
    “So you really aren’t mad?” asks Rhett with a look of confusion.
    “No sweetheart, why would you ever think that I would be?” she asks.
    “Oh, I don’t know, because of the types of girls that you try to push off on me,” he says.
    She shrugs. “So, I didn’t want you lonely and