Chapter 21

Taylor chose the seat next to Nathaniel, breathing in his manly scent. Her girlish crush for him all those years ago had blossomed fully into womanly love and she wondered as always how he had never noticed her. The first day she’d set her eyes on him, five years ago after she and Thea had become friends in sophomore year, something had shifted in her. He was five years older than her but it didn’t matter. Five years was not that big an age gap. If only he would notice her... She longed for him to finally see her as she saw him, yearned for the day he would realize how hopelessly in love with him she was but it never came. But now that he was divorced, maybe she finally had a chance. Which was why when Nathaniel excused himself to use the bathroom, she waited for ten seconds before she excused herself as well. What she had to tell him was better said without an audience, especially seeing as his so-called assistant was present. Taylor doubted there was nothing going on between Natha