The Business of Love

Dae Wellshire fell in love with Chesa Raine the very first second that he saw her creating the huge glass-tile mural in his latest investment, a convention center in Maui. After that very first second, and for the next two years, it felt like he spent much of his time trying to get over her while they planned for her to create a mural in his personal residence, in Seattle. Dae often asked himself, what in the world would he do when she came to his home for three months to work. Chesa Raine was a married woman...and now four months pregnant. He loved her, he would move heaven and earth for her, and still, he felt no joy when he received the news that her husband died in a car crash. He felt only heartache for Chesa and her loss. He knew that he would support her emotionally, that he would be there for her until her heart and her life felt healed of the trauma. But would she ever come to see him as more that just a friend?