Primrose Path (A Harry Wells x Reader Insert)

Chapter 3

You spin on your heels when you hear the door open. After your incredible date the night before, you expect Harrison to stride through the door, dressed in another one of those slick suits of his you love so much. However, you're disappointed to find one of his bodyguards enter in his place.

"Good afternoon!" you greet him as you would any customer, "What can I do for you today?"

"Doctor Wells sends his apologies, ma'am," says the man. "He is unfortunately too busy to make it in today."

"Oh..." you say, unable to keep the disappointment from showing up in your expression and voice.

"But he sends his regards," the large man adds, handing you a red carnation - admiration - and a neatly folded note.

(Y/N),

I'm very sorry to say that I will be unable

to attend our daily rendezvous today as

I must oversee an important business

matter. Regardless, I will still be thinking

of you...

x H.W.

You smile at his words and run your thumb over his initials at the bottom before suddenly remembering that the man is still standing there.

"One second," you say, pulling your notepad from the pocket of your apron and beginning to pen your own little note.

You tell Harrison that it's okay that he couldn't make it, you know he's very busy, and you truly enjoyed the previous evening and wanted nothing more than to do it again. You try to keep the urgency to see him again out of your tone because the last thing you want to appear is desperate. You finish it off by giving him your own phone number, as you had rung him on the phone in the shop the last time, and tell him to call you.

You bite your lip lightly as you look around to find something to give him in return for the flower. You instantly spot the roses off to one side and smile as you take one with an unopened bud from the bucket and cut the stem to only a couple of inches. You then turn back to the man in front of you, who had been patiently waiting for you to finish what you were doing.

"I'm sorry, I didn't get your name," you say.

"It's Matthew, ma'am."

"Well, Matthew, I know you probably have more important things to be doing than passing on notes, but would you possibly give these to Harrison for me?"

You hold out the folded paper and the rosebud while smiling hopefully. The man returns it with his own small smile, taking the items from you.

"Of course, ma'am," he replies before turning to leave. "Have a good day."

"You too," you say as he exits the shop.

***

True to his word, Matthew delivers your note and flower to Harry as soon as his schedule of back to back meetings with the Board of Directors and then investing companies is over. As well as an unscheduled talk with some of his men over an entirely different kind of business...

Harry is sitting at his desk when Matthew knocks, and the CEO asks him a few questions about how you reacted, trying not to seem too eager, not that Matthew would ever pass judgement. But the thing is that he is eager. He had never been one to 'play the field', preferring instead to stick to committed relationships with genuine emotions, but women he had dated previously had never felt the same and he hadn't been on a second date in longer than he cares to think about.