"Wake up sleepy head." He whispers kissing my forehead. Slowly opening my eyes I smile, looking at him he just melts my heart every time. "I let you sleep in a little longer, now its back to reality and back to work." He says sliding some hair strands away from my face.

"Ugh.. Do I have to?" I joke, letting out a yawn.

He takes my hand helping me out of bed. "I'm sure it's going to be a busy day today catching up on everything."

On the way to the office, Levi held my hand the whole time playing with my ring sliding it back and forth as well as smiling. Every light we hit he would take my hand bringing it to his lips kissing it. "So does this mean you're going to actually move in with me officially?" He asks looking over at me. "I still have like 7 months left on my lease, I don't know what to do."

"I'll pay your lease off." He insists squeezing my hand. I shake my head, "No, I cannot let you do that, maybe I can see if I could sublet the apartment out."

"It's only money, something that I can help with, I think you should just get out of it and be done with it." He says as I take a deep breath not saying another word, there's no point in arguing with him about it, I won't win anyways.

It was pretty quiet in the elevator, I couldn't stop thinking about what I should do with my apartment, besides getting everything out of there. As the doors open, I start stepping out, Levi grabs my hand pulling me in, hitting the button to close the doors. "Hey." He whispers.

"What?" I say quietly looking away. "We will figure all of this out, I'll even call them and see if they can let you out of the rest of the lease." He assures me with a smile leaning down and kissing my lips. He pushes the button for the doors to open, I step out walking towards the break room. "Alexis" He shouts. I turn around to look at him, he just smiles and winks at me before heading to his office.

I walk into the break room to make Levi his coffee, while getting the coffee ready I hear the doors open and assume that it's Sandy, "She's not scaring me this time." I mumble to myself.

"So how was your trip?" I hear her say, turning around I smile at her. "It was wonderful!" I say giving her a hug.

"So where did you go?"

"I chose Venice."

"I figured you would, I knew how much you wanted to go there." She chuckles.

"It was a good choice, so beautiful and so romantic, I loved it there."

I was pouring the coffee in Levi's cup and could see Sandy's mouth drop at the corner of my eye. I set the coffee pot down. "Let me see that." She says in shock.

"See what?" I smile.

She grabs my hand, "What's this?" She asks as she's studying the ring. "Wow! It's beautiful! I'm floored!" I put my hand out to look at it, "It sparkles really nice in the lighting, he did a wonderful job, it's a little big but I love it."

"When did he do that?"

"Our last night there, which was Friday night, I was in shock, never did I expect him to do that so soon. I almost said no, that it was way too soon, but changed my mind seeing the way he looked at me. He was so romantic about it all, he really is someone that I could spend the rest of my life with."

I grab Levi's coffee, "But I'll talk to you later, how about lunch?" She smiles "Yes, let's do lunch."

"I should bring him this." I say as I leave the room.

I walk into Levi's office setting his coffee down on the desk, he pats his leg wanting me to sit on his lap. "You're on the phone." I whisper. He smiles shrugging his shoulder's patting his leg again. I sit down on his leg, he points to the screen on the computer, I look at it and write the number's down.

Levi hangs up the phone and wraps his arms around me. "I already made those appointment's, I was just showing you, that I already took care of it. Here are the dates and times." Handing me the paper.

"You didn't have to do that you know, that's my job." I say quietly and frustrated.

"It's ok, I had some time and I noticed there was a pile of papers on your desk, Sandy also set up a lunch meeting at noon today if you wanted to join." He says holding me tighter.

"I think I was going to go to lunch with Sandy today if that's ok."

"I can handle this meeting by myself, I just figured you could come with."

"I better get to work." I say getting off of his lap. He stands up pulling me close against him, he cupped his hand behind my head and pulled me in for a kiss. He groans kissing my cheek. "Go to work before I put you on this desk." He laughs.

I start sorting through all of the paperwork, as I look through it I couldn't believe all the different areas he was about to be investing in. Hotels, apartments, shopping malls, and more. I started making files for all of these and as I got to one of the apartments I looked closer and it was my building he was buying. I grabbed the file and walked into his office without knocking, and throwing the file on his desk.

"What's this?" I ask as he looks at me confused.

He opens it up, "That's your apartment building, I know. Why?"

"You're buying it? Is that why you said that you would call them?"

"Calm down, they have had that place for sale for a long time, they called me asking if I would be interested in buying them out, I had asked them to get me all the information, that I wanted to see numbers first. I was suppose to meet with them last week, but I took you out of town, they must have stopped by and given all of this paperwork to Sandy. I never went to them, they came to me."

"Well might as well buy it, I won't feel so bad breaking my lease agreement."

"Is that an insult or are you trying to be funny?" He questions not sure how to take that remark.

"I'm being serious, no pun intended, I'm just saying I wouldn't have to worry about it then." I walk over to him sitting on his lap, I thought you were trying to buy them out since I lived there. "You live with me." He winks kissing my lips.

I get up and open the door "Can you send Sandy in here please?" He asks politely.

Levi POV:

Sandy walks in, "You wanted to see me?" She asks walking towards the desk and sitting down in front of me.

"Yes for a couple things, I need checks written out to all the employees here because of the Ozark project, all of the payments had gone through and I would like to fulfill my promise to you all."

"How much am I writing the checks for?" She asks taking notes. I look up at her and smile, "$25,000."

"HOW MUCH?" She says trying to breathe, holding her hand to her chest.

"You heard me, and don't question me, just write them out and I'll sign them."

"Wow, Mr. Matthew's, that's awfully nice of you." She says wiping her forehead and whispering $25,000 to herself. I look at her and chuckle.

"Secondly I would like to thank you for hiring Alexis, or Ms. Miller." I say smiling. "If it weren't for you I wouldn't have her in my life. I have never had these feelings for anyone before, not even McKenna. I am so in love with her it's crazy Sandy."

"You can also thank Ms. Adams for quitting, otherwise I wouldn't have hired her in the first place." She says with a grin. I nod my head "Yes, I suppose that's true too."

"So.. I take it she told you?"

"Tell me? She didn't have to tell me, I seen that rock, congratulations Mr. Matthews, she's a good girl, don't you dare hurt her, or you'll answer to me." She says serious but along with a chuckle.

"Sandy, who am I?.. I would never hurt her, you should know that." She looks at me smiling "I know you wouldn't hurt her, I just like to say it to you." She laughs.

"OK.. That's all I needed to talk to you about, you may leave now, I'm sure Alexis is hungry and is out there waiting for you."

Alexis POV:

I look at the clock and wonder what's taking Sandy so long in there. Hoping she's not in trouble for anything she did while we were gone. I stand up walking to the door, holding my hand up to knock when the door opens.

"Oh, I was just going to see if you were ready." I says to Sandy stepping back away from the door.

We left to go grab lunch from down the street. As we sit and wait for our food she wanted to know all about Italy, I filled her in where he took me to, and how he also brought me to Florence.

"I still cannot get over that ring!" She says shaking her head and looking at the ring.

"Sandy, there's something else."

She looks at me confused taking a drink of her water. "Don't tell me you're having second thoughts." She says worried.

"I'm pregnant." Sandy smiles wide getting excited and then her eyes get wide and surprised.

"What? What was that?" I hear a voice saying behind me.

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