He hasn’t seen her since she graduated from high school. She moved off to go to college and neither ever returned to their small hometown. She’s made quite a bit of money on her own. She made a little over a million in the last year.
She’s a graphic designer and does tons of bestselling book covers and album covers. And she’s beginning to dabble in cinematography, doing some small special effect scenes for movies, using her skills as a graphic design artist.
Because of her involvement with him in her younger years, she thinks all men are serial cheaters and none can be trusted. She’s kept them all at arms-length, only using them when she needs a bit of action, but getting serious with no one.
When he tells her why he’s rich, she’s not surprised, and tells him he is the master at that after all. She notes in her mind that she wants nothing to do with him romantically anymore.
The two had great chemistry in their early school days and both feel it again, but she’s grown and not into games. At least not with him. The truth is, she’s played her fair share of games with men since he taught her how to so well. She tells him that she must not have been made to be loved and have the normal relationship thing.
When she tells him that, it makes him feel bad.
For the first time ever, he feels bad about what he’s doing.
He finds himself wanting to fix it for her and show her that she can be loved.
He makes a vow to himself to get back in her life and show her she’s very loveable—only she’s not about to let him in.
He has to work hard to get her to even let him take her to dinner. After a few drinks and with the romantic atmosphere, she gives into his advances. But she lets him know before-hand that it’s only for one night.
The next night she gets a date with another man to go to an awards show, where she’s up for a special effects award. It’s on television, and when he sees it, he’s livid she didn’t ask him to go with her.
They go back and forth, with her saying they have nothing real and him falling more and more in love with her all the time. She is too, but won’t admit it, as she thinks he’ll do what he’s always done and mess around. She thinks he’s incapable of being a one-woman man.
But as she goes on dates with other men, she finds herself comparing them to him all the time and wishes he would settle down with her.
They both use condoms all the time, as that’s a must when you have many sexual partners. She gets a pregnancy scare and laughs as she’s telling him about it.
He tells her that if he was to have a kid with anyone, he’d want it to be her. She tells him she doesn’t want to raise a kid alone. Her mother had to do that when her dad ran off, and she doesn’t want that for any kid of hers.
His wheels start turning and he asks her to marry him, to which she laughs and tells him no way in hell.
He digs in his heels and tells her they should move in together to give it a trial run. She’s sure he’ll really want out once he has to live with someone, something he’s never done. So she takes him up on the offer and moves into his mansion with him.
She gives him the real deal version of living with a woman and amps it up as if they’d been married ten years, letting all her ways hang out and even going overboard with many of the things married couples gripe about.
Instead of freaking out and bailing, he finds himself feeling very comfortable and knowing she’s the one for him. He takes her to Spain and asks her to marry him. She’s surprised. She knows she loves him and wants to take the chance that he won’t screw her over.
She accepts and he’s over the moon. Except, when they get back, she sets up a little test for him by getting a friend of hers—who he doesn’t know—to come on to him to see if he tells her he’s engaged.
Only, he overhears her on the phone and is pissed by her distrust. So when the woman comes around, he flirts and acts as if he does want to go out with her, never mentioning that he’s engaged.
The only thing is, it’s not the right woman, and when his girl catches him talking to her, she loses it and throws his ring at him and disappears.
He has to search and search for her. Then he sees that she’s managed to secretly install his own app on his phone and she’s tracking him. So he leaves his phone at home and manages to find her at her home.
There, he confronts her about knowing about the set up and says he’s sorry it was the wrong woman. He loves her untrusting ass and wants to marry her and have a family. He’s never wanted anything more.
She feels awful for setting him up like that and tells him they should move the wedding up, as they already have their marriage license. So they go and get married by a justice of the peace and finally live happily ever after.