Chapter 22
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I f Dylan thought meeting Sam’s brothers might encourage her to open up to him, he’d been wrong.
Despite his attempts to draw her into conversation about her family, her childhood, or anything remotely personal since, she’d thwarted him at every turn, leaving him with the distinct impression she had some deep, dark secret.
And now, as her three-month trial period drew to a close, he was no closer to knowing anything about the woman who had snuck under his carefully erected barriers against emotional involvement.
He wanted to make her position as his personal assistant permanent. It would be the perfect solution, providing him with a valuable asset to his business while giving him an opportunity to explore his unfamiliar, growing feelings.
He couldn’t deny it any longer.
Despite her attempts to keep him at arm’s length since their return from Sydney, he wanted her.
Not just in the physical sense, but on a deeper level. He wanted Sam Piper in his life. By his side. In whatever capacity she wanted to be.
He genuinely liked her yet, wouldn’t go as far as to admit to the other ‘L’ word.
He couldn’t acknowledge that word or the helpless feelings it reinforced—he’d lost his father because he’d been too pig-headed to admit to that emotion, yet he’d be damned if he associated ‘love’ and ‘Sam’ in the same thought.
Not yet, anyway.
So, that left him with only one option.
Offer her a permanent position as his personal assistant and see what developed between them.
Luckily, he knew the perfect way to persuade her to accept his offer.