'But you seem happy.' Her voice trembled.
'Seeming and being are not one and the same. I know you know that.'
She nodded sadly.
'You don't have to put on a brave face all the time, you know.' He handed her a tissue.
'Oh, I'm not brave at all.' She blew her nose.
'Ever hear the saying that you need to be scared to be brave?'
Holly thought about that. 'But I don't feel brave, I just feel scared.'
'Oh, we all feel scared at times - there's nothing wrong with that - but there will come a day when you stop feeling scared. Look at all you've done!' He held his hands up, indicating her office. 'And look at all this.' He flicked through the pages of the magazine. 'That's the work of a very brave person.'
Holly smiled. 'I love the job.'
'And that's great news! But you need to learn to love more than your job.'
Holly frowned. She hoped this wasn't one of those get-over-one-man-by-sleeping-under-another-type chats.
'I mean learn to love yourself,' Chris continued. 'Learn to love your new life. Don't let your entire life revolve around your job. There's more to it than that.'
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