Chapter 15 - Luca Finally Asks Emma About Herself
A year after the dinner, Emma completed her hospitality-management
certificate.
Luca attended the employee recognition ceremony.
He sat in the second row.
No bodyguards beside him.
No dramatic entrance.
Afterward he congratulated her.
Then, for the first time, he asked a question that had nothing to do
with Vanessa.
“What do you want to do next?”
Emma laughed.
“You’re my employer. Shouldn’t you know?”
“No.”
That answer surprised her.
She wanted to move into hotel operations.
Not private service.
Luca’s hospitality group had an entry-level management rotation.
Emma applied.
She interviewed with people who did not report directly to Luca.
She earned a place.
When she received the offer, Luca sent one message.
YOU DIDN’T NEED ME.
Emma replied:
I NEEDED THE TUITION.
He answered:
FAIR.
Their relationship remained respectful.
No instant romance.
No billionaire rescuing the maid.
Emma had spent too much of her life being treated as if money determined
May you like
who mattered.
She did not need the story to end by becoming rich through a man.
