Marrying Her Older Billionaire

“When he asked me to join him, since we were best friends, I must admit I was just a little bit hesitant. Who wouldn’t have been? We were not all that experienced. But we got better. We got a lot better. We’ve beaten our old employers forty times in court over the past fifteen years. We have lost thrice, and all three losses were in the first two years our firm existed, back when we were still trying to get settled, when we were still trying to find our feet. Now, we go toe to toe with all of the more established law firms in the city. We are the ones that everyone is afraid to go up against. I take some credit for this for being the head lawyer for all these years. But the lion’s share of the credit undoubtedly goes to this man, Matthew James, who led us with calm determination and saved us from the brink of disaster countless times.

“I am blessed to know him. I am blessed to be his friend. And now, I am blessed to be the one he passes his torch to. I am blessed to be the one that he saw fit to make his successor. It’s not often that you become the successor to your idol. But that is what has happened here. And so, it would be my pleasure to issue my first direct command as the manager of this company. This command is that we are taking the day off. Irregular, I know, but the man that this firm depended on for so long is leaving us. What do you guys say we throw him a proper farewell?”

Everyone cheered once again. They were all ecstatic. Today was the kind of day that most people never even thought about. It was the kind of day that everyone thought could only come to pass in the movies.

They drank that day, and danced and partied. Angie enjoyed herself with all of the employees at the office. They refused to let Matthew leave, saying that he should enjoy one last day with his employees. He danced for the first time in years and Angie laughed as she watched her father’s awkward shuffling. She laughed as she saw Richard dance with him. She danced with him too, and even risked dancing with Richard for a little while. She danced with him the way she would dance with anyone she was not all that close to, as formally as possible. She wanted to dance more. She wanted to dance the way that she actually wanted to dance. However, such a thing was not possible.

They all danced that day. They danced until they had absolutely no energy left for anything else. They danced until they were all exhausted, and then they all went home. Angie wished that she would be able to go with Richard to his place and enjoy his body, but this was not to be.

It was not so bad. She was going to go home with her dad. She was going to be able to spend the entire day with him. That was a privilege that she had been denied for a great many years. Today, she was not going to squander this privilege. Today, she was going to enjoy being with her father as much as she could. Today, she would be the one that her father turned to, and she would be the one that made him happy. And today would be a good day because of all of these things.

Yes, today was going to be a very good day indeed, and she was glad that she would get to enjoy it.