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table.
    “ You
are going to make me work for the intel, aren’t you?” he
asked.
    She
took a sip of her juice and looked at her plate. She had to admit, it
did look inviting. She put the glass down slowly and picked up a
fork.
    “ You
have no idea,” she said before she took a bite. “Oh my
dear Lord, this is actually really good,” she said taking
another bite.
    Daniel
smiled as he took a bite of his own food.
    “ Hate
to say I told you so, but I told you so,” he said with a cocky
smile.
    “ So,”
Erica started as she looked at him. “What is the story with you
anyway? I just met you less than twenty four hours ago and all I know
is that you run a company of home appliances and that you probably
came out here for business and decided to stay on an impromptu
extended vacation.” She took another bite and looked up at him.
    Daniel
looked at her and smiled. “There isn’t much to me really.
I run a company my father founded and I have learned the hard way
that every so often I have to make a little time for my personal
time. And maybe that’s why I decided to take a few extra days
after the deal closed,” he said.
    She
looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
    “ Now
I have to ask,” she said. He looked at her and she smiled. “And
I know how ridiculously hypocritical I sound right now.”
    “ Okay.
I will bite,” he said as he took a sip of his coffee. “This
time,” he added.
    “ That’s
more like it,” she said with a smile.
    “ Okay,
this is what happened. I was trying to make everything work out, you
know, at work and at home. And I guess I somehow leaned too much into
the corporate and forgot all about life at home. So one day I got
back home from work and I was all alone,” he said. “I
waited for a few weeks and my girlfriend didn’t show up and she
wasn’t answering my calls either. I just put two and two
together when she came as my business partner’s date to one of
my parents’ events.” He took a bite of his food and
looked up at her. “So that’s the story of my life. The
sad, lonely story of my life,” he added as he looked up at her.
    She
took a sip of her juice and smiled sadly. “Your story is really
sad. Does it get you laid much?” she asked as she took another
bite.
    Daniel
smiled and then laughed. “What would make you say something
like that?”
    “ Well,
I have worked with enough big players to know that Rolex on your
wrist is the real deal and you are a good looking man, a rich good
looking man. So there is no way you can convince me that you have
never dropped that story just to get laid,” she said.
    Daniel
looked into her intense brown eyes and smiled.
    “ Well,
I might have gotten a pity lay one too many times but believe me, I
have never told that story to anyone before. At least not with that
intention,” he said.
    She
raised an eyebrow and smiled at him.
    “ Aha.
So you have told that story before, haven’t you?” She
asked with sly smile.
    “ Maybe
I have. But enough about me. What about you?” he asked as he
looked at her. Her gaze dropped as she toyed with her food. She was
not sure she was ready to open up yet. It had taken a really long
time to even open up to two of her closest people, her sister and
Cassandra. She took a long deep breath and looked up. “It’s
that bad, huh?” he asked.
    “ To
be honest, it’s really that bad plus a whole lot of shit on
top,” she said as she looked at him. She shook her head and
then looked up. “But it’s kind of almost the same thing
as your story,” she added.
    Daniel
raised an eyebrow.
    “ So
you let work get the better of you too?” he asked.
    “ Not
exactly but…” there was no way around this. She had no
more words to express herself. She looked up at him and smiled. She
didn’t know what it was about him that made her feel so safe
with him. Normally, she wouldn’t have said anything to a man
she barely knew but she suddenly had an urge to pour her heart out.
“I trusted someone, a lot.