Chapter 55. Finding Willow (8)

Nicholas’s POV

Her hands were shaking on her lap, but I didn’t care. I kept my eyes on her, waiting for her answer.

“Geoffrey’s assistant sent me the files after she’d gone through them. There was some miscommunication between us. The one she picked wasn’t the one I assumed she meant when I sent out the award letter. We didn’t figure it out until a few days later.” She finally looked up at me. “You were still out of town and I was just trying to take initiative. I tried to explain as courteously as I could that a mistake had been made.”

“But then you ignored all of Miss Taylor’s following correspondence?”

Her eyes welled up in tears and I sighed. “I’m sorry. I tried to take care of it. She wouldn’t take the hint that it was over, it wasn’t hers to have.”

I glared at her. Maybe grown a little too.

“Don’t put this on her. This was your mistake and you should have told me about it from the start. Why did you keep it from me when I asked for th