Marrying Her Older Billionaire

“I don’t doubt that you are,” said Richard. “I’m really glad you’re back. Will you be in your dad’s office? I’ll come and join you guys soon, right after I get this document and give it to my legal team. It might take me about fifteen minutes to find it, is that alright?”

“Of course,” said Angie. “We’ll wait for you. Don’t worry, you’re the star of this lunch, we’re not going to leave without you.”

She immediately clamped her hands over her mouth and said, “I probably should not have said that. Dad wanted to uhh… I think I should stop talking before I reveal anymore than I already have.”

“It’s okay,” said Richard with a laugh, “I know that Matthew has something to tell me. He wouldn’t have invited me for the first lunch that he is going to have with his daughter after she got back from a decade in Africa if this wasn’t the case. Don’t worry, you haven’t really told me anything that I don’t already know.”

“I’ll just let my dad tell you the rest then,” said Angie, as the doors opened to the archives in the basement.

“That works,” said Richard, stepping out of the elevator. He looked around the archives and said, “I’ll see you soon, if I can find my way out of this place that is!”

Angie laughed her beautiful, tinkling, bell like laugh as the doors closed and she headed up to her father’s office.

Richard sighed. He felt a little strange. She was so… old now. Not old in a bad way just… older than she had been before. He didn’t know how to feel about that. He didn’t know how to feel about the fact that the little girl he had said goodbye to not all that long ago, for that was what ten years felt like at the moment, had come back a woman, a fully grown woman… a beautiful woman. She was so beautiful that he didn’t really know how to process that information. He didn’t really know how to process the fact that he was actually feeling attracted to Angie.

She was his partner’s daughter. He shouldn’t be feeling like this about her. It was wrong. Or was it? She was a woman, after all. A fully grown woman. She was almost thirty years old… there was surely nothing morally wrong with being attracted to a woman, even if that woman was the daughter of your best friend and business partner.

He thought about it as he looked for the legal document that would allow him to win this all important case that he was taking part in. She was a woman now, almost thirty years old. He kept repeating this thought in his head. Her father should really have no say in her love life. He was his best friend, but he certainly didn’t have any say in his love life either. It was all about being a man, it was all about looking at things the way they are supposed to be looked at. Would Matthew be so insecure that he would not like the fact that his friend was feeling this way about his daughter? Richard had known Matthew for two decades by now, and he was sure that this would not be the case. He wasn’t the type of person that would ascribe his own sense of self worth to somebody that he had helped raise.

But, then again, Richard could not get anything from personal experience. He just didn’t know what father’s thought like because he had never been a father. He had never even been a father figure to anyone, he had never had to be the one to give people advice, he had never been the one that people turned to. He had been the boss and this was similar but a boss is a professional position, a boss has absolutely no say in the personal lives of his employees. A father, however, can have a lot of say in the personal life of his daughter.

Richard vanquished these thoughts from his mind. He couldn’t think this way, not about Angie. He suddenly realized that he was thinking about being attracted to the girl that he had watched grow up. There seemed to be something wrong with that, though he could not exactly pinpoint what that was.

He found the file that he was looking for. It was an outdated document but it was still valid. It would allow his team to successfully prevent the company that his firm was representing from getting sued by an employee that claimed that their factory conditions had caused cancer. He had been a chain smoker and that was clearly the cause of the cancer, but the doctor’s findings had become inadmissible in court when it was discovered that he had been sued for malpractice. The law firm that was representing the former employee of the company had not been hired by the man himself. It had been hired by a rival company, a company that wanted to take his clients down. He knew that this was a fight that he was going to have to be on his toes for, yet he could not stop thinking about Angie. He could not stop thinking about how beautiful she was, with the Afro braids and the chocolate skin and the wide eyes. She was a vision to be sure, but it was a lot more than that. She was not just a beautiful woman physically, she was a beautiful person as well. He could feel it in her embrace. He could feel it in the way she smiled at him. She was a truly beautiful person, and Richard wanted to know her. He wanted to know her because by knowing her he felt like he could become a better person.

He was utterly confused. He had never felt this way before. What could possibly be wrong with him that he would start thinking about his partner’s daughter during one of the most important cases of his career? He hoped that this would not affect his performance during the case, because winning this case was essential to ensuring that his clients would not end up getting sued and that they would continue funneling money into his law firm. He hoped that he would not lose sight of the bigger picture, that he would be able to do what needed to be done.