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took my face in his hands and said, “All of a sudden, I want to be a better man.”
     
    “You’re already an amazing man,” I told him.  He looked at me then like we were the only two people in the world then and he said,
     
    “I like you, Robyn.  I really, really like you. It’s the closest thing to love that I’ve ever felt and it might be that….but you know how I am….I need to examine it a little closer. I’ve never cared what anyone thought of me on a personal level before. As long as I excelled in business and the business world respected me….that was all that mattered, until I met you. You walked into my life and you changed everything and for the first time I can step outside the business part of this deal and look at the humans behind it. I’m going to buy the kids out, but I’m going to let the old man keep operating it the way he always has until he dies. I don’t care if it makes money or not, at least he will know for sure that until he dies…. his company will be run by a Hamilton.”
     
    “That is amazing and I’m so proud of you,” I told him. He smiled, looking pleased with both me and himself.
     
    “It’s funny that those five words mean more to me than a multi-million dollar business deal.” With that, he tipped my face up and his down and he kissed me. It wasn’t a peck, or a kiss that was really even appropriate for public. His teeth grazed mine as he searched in my mouth for my tongue, sucking it back into his. It felt like he was claiming me as his and I wasn’t going to tell him right then that he already had me, because I had no desire for him to ever stop.
     
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    It was Valentine’s Day. Aaron had done something new this year for his employees and he’d put together a Valentine’s dinner dance for them. To be honest, Janice and her minions had pulled it together, but Aaron had suggested it and financed it. He was starting to do a much better job of getting into the spirit of the holidays, and getting in touch with his own feelings and emotions. He was even doing a great job of talking to me about them.
     
    We’d been together almost two months by then…if you didn’t count the short time we weren’t really dating right after New Year’s. I was spending most of my time with him at his apartment now and he was talking about us moving in together. I wasn’t sure if we were ready for that, but the fact that he was suggesting it told me he was looking at us as long-term. That was what I wanted…I wanted to keep him. I couldn’t imagine how life could get any better.
     
    We had a delicious meal of smoked salmon and fresh vegetables and instead of sitting at the executive table, Aaron and I just found the first empty space and took a seat. It was fun to see the looks on the employee’s faces that he sat with and talked to. After dinner, Aaron and I mingled around, so that he could greet his employees and I could say hello to everyone I knew. Then he led me over to the dance floor and we shared a dance. We danced a long slow waltz and then he kissed me, in front of everyone. Aaron didn’t seem to be the least bit discombobulated about it either like he had over just a dance at the Christmas party. He’d come a long way.
     
    As we were coming off the dance floor Hal, one of Aaron’s executives said,
     
    “Aaron, there’s a reporter in the lobby from Forbes. He’s just asking for a slice…a one-liner from you. Would you mind?”
     
    “No, I guess not.”  Looking at me he said, “Will you excuse me for a few minutes?”
     
    “Of course, I’m going to step out front near the valet’s and just get some air,” I told him. When we came out of the ballroom, I watched him walk through the lobby and approach the reporter. He looked so handsome in his tuxedo with his red bow tie and cummerbund. He and I had both come a long way in a short time. I was learning that as adventurous as I liked my life to be, life as the girlfriend of a business mogul