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Riley took a step back He was not falling for a woain He couldn’t She was Law’s Do a corner of their sheets or whatever Not his probleo If the other two didn’t care about getting burned again, that was their call They’d see the light when she used her charood Kinley didn’t really want them, and the fairy tale co would never happen The sooner he and Doh, Riley went back to work
Kinley took a long s of her wine and stared at the accounting books spread across the table in front of her Hours and hours had gone by since she’d escaped, only to turn around and run back into her captor’s are Enor could seriously put out the ht?" Riley Anders stood in the doorway, leaning negligently against it
He was heartbreakingly gorgeous, and it was so obvious that he wanted nothing to do with her He was the only one who never invaded her space, who stayed as far from her as possible
She knew these men considered themselves so close that they were all for one and one for all If Riley didn’t want her, she was screwed Or not screwed
"I’m okay" Except that she was dumber than dirt, and the evidence in front of her proved it The last six weeks showed a series of payouts that she couldn’t account for And apparently her accountant wasn’t doing his job any the books, but nothing like meticulous Steve
And she was a fool because she just knew she was falling for the men who had kidnapped her
Nothing in the world had felt so right as running toward Law thisinside her kept insisting she was ic told her that she should want to escape her abductors, so she’d kept walking Very quickly, Kinley had realized that she knew absolutely nothing about surviving in the woods And obviously, they hadn’t lied about the whole Alaska thing The sun didn’t stay down for very long She’d ed to sleep a little, but the lack of darkness threw off her whole syste a hole through her "How about the rat thing?"
She wasn’t sure she liked thei is fine now that’s she’s been fed"
Riley frowned "Is that what all the barking was about? For such a little thing, she can be awfully loud"
Gigi was si who knehat she wanted "She’s used to a certain feeding schedule The whole kidnapping thing threw us off If she starts up again, she’s likely hungry so if you want her to stop, feed her a little so And she’s s into the kitchen at least twice a day barking up a storm now that she knohere the food bowls are kept"
"Good to know," Riley said He looked back at the door as though he was conte back out, but then he seeht-line jaw of his firain?"
After the whole snot-nosed moose incident? "No Now that I’ve seen what’s out there, I feelto murder me and leave le step toward her "We really are trying to help you Your boyfriend meant to kill you"
She’d just about accepted that fact "He was never my boyfriend, just my fiancé That may sound weird, but a boyfriend is soht I should know"
She’d bought Greg with her name, her connections, and apparently her charity
Riley stared at the floor "I wouldn’t know about that I’ve never had enough money to buy one"
She heard the bitter tone of his voice "Yeah, well, I would tell you to hold out for so"
"Is that how you saw it? A sacrifice?"
She’d been sacrificing her whole life She’d given up so ht that, while her sister and fatheraffection But now she knew they simply didn’t have any kind of a conscience
"Yes I wasbecause I fir under The economy has been bad Donations are way down Hope House was the work of ht ofcancer and no insurance nearly killed me Mom was the one orked Dad, uh bills and stuff"
"Or he was too busy ga to send his check in"
She started to protest and stopped Because it was true "Yeah"
"So you wereto save your dad and your charity?"
"And because I was lonely" Her heart ached, and she was too tired to lie "I’m twenty-five and I’ve never had a lover I was lonely, and I wanted a fa moment "You want a family? Like a husband and kids and a white picket fence?"
That had been the dream, but… "I think I would take love any way it ca "I’ve never knooman like you to care about love"
"A woman like me?"
"Pampered Rich"