Sugar Daddy

“I won’t push you; I won’t ask you to be available every second of the day, but I want a relationship.”

“How much?” I asked finally.

“Two thousand a week.”

A week! I almost started crying at the table. By the end of the year I could pay off my school debt and easily move out of my parents. I could keep writing fulltime and not worry about the awful waitressing job at the diner.

I just smiled and squeezed his hand in mine. Alex finally looked up and we locked eyes, my heart skipped one long and painful beat but I didn’t look away. I could do this, I decided dazedly, I can do this with him.