Marrying Her Older Billionaire

Chapter 4

Angie was nervous. Had she made a complete and utter fool of herself in front of Richard? She felt like she had embarrassed herself completely, felt like she had said all of the wrong things to him. She had liked the idea of seeing him, but actually seeing him was a completely different experience to what she had been expecting. Meeting him had been like meeting someone that you didn’t know you missed this much.

She had not expected that actually seeing him would have this affect on her. Once she entered the lift, his cologne overpowered her and in a very good way. He smelled so good! Angie had always been a sucker for men that smelled good. She was never able to control herself around such men, never able to make herself seem as graceful as she wanted to be. She had a feeling that she had just rambled on like a schoolgirl with a crush. Richard probably thought she was such a little girl! She had wanted to appear mature in front of him, wanted to act like the woman she was. She was almost thirty years old, for God’s sake! She was an adult, more of an adult than other thirty year olds even. She had always been mature for her age, and now that age had caught up with her maturity it was a different ballgame altogether. And yet, she couldn’t help but feel like she had acted like a complete idiot around the man that she was so utterly attracted to that she couldn’t stand it.

She felt like she was overreacting. She thought about it and realized that she had not really said anything untoward. She had not said anything embarrassing or something similar. Yes, she was simply overreacting right now. There was absolutely no reason for her to feel this way.

She got to her father’s office and saw him hard at work. She looked at him for a moment. He had a look of complete and utter concentration on his face, the sort of look that someone had while they were engrossed in a very interesting book. That was always how he looked while he was working, she even remembered him looking this way ten years ago before she had left for Kenya.

She thought about all of the times she had watched him work. She didn’t think that he would still be so into his. He was thinking about retirement after all, someone that was thinking about leaving his job would be so utterly engrossed in his work. Perhaps it was a goodbye, his way of saying farewell to the job that had been his everything for so long.

He couldn’t still be interested in his work, could he? She didn’t want him to just leave his job because she had come back from Kenya. If that was the reason for his retirement, she would start to feel extremely guilty. She would feel like she was forcing her father to give up something that was important to him just because she had decided that she didn’t want to stay in Kenya anymore.

She continued to look at him. He looked up and looked at her and his expression changed completely. He got a look of pure and utter joy on his face, the sort of look that a man that had everything to live for would have. Angie understood in that moment what was going on. He still enjoyed his work. He just realized that there were things that were more important. He had given fifteen years to the law firm, fifteen years in which he had done nothing else except for work hard to make the firm as big as possible. He now wanted to start living for himself, he wanted to start living for other things apart from his firm. He wanted to start living the life that he had been missing out on by spending so much time working on this job.

She smiled back at him. Her father was so handsome when he smiled. He looked ten years younger. Or was that just because he was smiling at her? Was he smiling at his daughter, and did that make his smile even more beautiful than it was anyway?

She went into the office and said, “Hi Dad. You seemed busy, I didn’t want to disturb you.”

“Oh sweetie, you should’ve just come in!” said Matthew. He got up and hugged her. “I wasn’t really doing anything that requires my immediate attention. Just something that I need to do before I leave. I want to hand Richard the key to a firm that is standing on its own two feet, I don’t want him to have to deal with anything that I left behind as a result of negligence or something else.”

“I get it,” said Angie, kissing her father on the forehead. “Shall we go? Richard will be here in a few minutes I think, perhaps we should wait for him and all go to the restaurant together.”

“Did you meet him on your way up?” asked Matthew. “That man works way too much. He never even takes a break for lunch, he always eats lunch at work. I’m so glad that he agreed to have lunch with us, it will allow him to take a bit of a break from the grind, it’ll allow him to do something different. He needs a little variety in his life. Everyone does, you know? Everyone deserves to have something in their life that they can look forward to. I wish that he would understand that. I wish that he would understand what I have understood, that there is more to life than work, that the world is big and vast and there is so much to explore and see, so much to do and so many people that would be willing to love you if you gave them the time and the chance.”

“Well maybe you can tell him all about it today,” said Angie. “Why don’t you just add it to the announcement that he is to become the manager of the firm as well as the head lawyer? You could suggest to him to start living a little more too, I’m sure that he would at least consider your advice. If he took time out of his busy schedule to even meet you for lunch when he normally never takes lunch breaks, you probably have a great deal of influence on him wouldn’t you agree?”

“Yes that’s a good idea,” said Matthew. “A very good idea. Did he tell you where he was going or what he was going to do?”

“He told me both,” said Angie. “He told him that he is going to go down to the archives and take a document, a rather old one that people haven’t seen for a long time or something. He is going to give it to his legal team and allow them to handle the work for a little bit while he goes out with us.”