When you realise

39. End of Summer

The tone on my phone pulled me away from the paperwork on my desk, I knew it was Mel because only her and Damian had access to my extension "Hey Mel" I politely said.

"Mr Hemmings is on the phone for you Ellie" she spat out, I quickly thanked her remembering how he slept with her and the next day told her he was moving across the country, I actually never expected to hear from him again.

"Good Morning Oliver, how can I help you" I said as I picked up the line.

"Good Morning Ellie" he said although he didn't sound upbeat like he usually did, I wonder if something was said between him and Mel when he called.

Even if Mel was not excited to hear from him, I was soon becoming excited about the prospect to work with him again, he told me about a hotel that has just become available in LA in a great location and he remembered that I wanted to expand the hotel chain, so he thought he would call to see if I was still interested, we agreed for me to fly over next week and check it out.

Just when I thought we were ready to hang up, he surprised me with a question I didn't think was my place to answer "How is Mel? She won't answer my calls".

"You will need to ask her yourself; I will transfer you back through so you can give her the address of the hotel so that she can make the arrangements" I replied, hearing him sign on the other end, I really don't think it is going to be a pleasant phone call between them.

After transferring the call even though Mel was not happy but she still did her job, I sat back in my chair and couldn't help the smile.

It has been almost been 3 months since Hunter and I reconciled and things were going great, really great we still have not slept together but we have had a lot of heavy make out sessions with a lot of touching, so many times I wanted to just give in make love to him. He wants to wait until I can tell him I love him and be able to trust him with my heart fully again.

We have really opened up with each other, he knows all about my past and all the things I did at 15, I wasn't comfortable telling him and I could tell by the look on his face he was not happy with what I was saying but he didn't say anything and just held me afterwards, I hate what I did, I wish it never happened but I can't change it.

I opened up about what it was like to grow up with my mum and never knowing my father, I told him about finding my mother dead, I actually shed a tear, I had never cried for her before, but something is changing in me and I am feeling a lot of things that I have never before, I keep wondering if it has something to do with Hunter's parents and how now not only Nathan accepts me, Mary welcomes me with open arms now, I attend family dinner with them every Sunday as well, even Damian comes, they both love him and welcome him as part of the family. I guess we both found a family we didn't have.

Hunter now knows how I became owner of the hotels and what I used as motivation to succeed.

There were sometimes that I thought it was all too much for him and he didn't talk for a while, but he always stayed and he always made me feel more than I ever felt in my life, he made me feel love, I am ready to tell him I love him and I want to move forward, he has shown me that he is ready, he tells me all the time that he loves me and he holds me tight and kisses me passionately, it is now up to me to let him know I am ready for the future, I am ready for our future.

There is still only one thing that I have not told him and that was that I slept with someone the night I left his house, I haven't asked him if he was with anyone else, it's a conversation I don't really want to happen, it was me at my lowest point and I don't want to relive that in anyway, Damian keeps telling me that we weren't together and it shouldn't matter but deep down I think it is going to be an issue. I need him to know that it didn't mean anything to me and I love him with everything I am.