**Olivia POV

“You… what?” I asked. Had Ellis really just asked me to be his girlfriend.

When I told him I wanted to give him a gift, that wasn’t what I’d had in mind. I thought I could get him a rare bottle of wine or cigars or something.

Could I really date Ellis? Could I publicly be with him and have that kind of attention? Being his girlfriend meant the world would find out about us. It was more than that, though. Carl would find out about us.

I had no ...