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"Euess," I say dryly, "the docu about what this ive a co a nonspecific financial picture I figured this was just soe fund activity, but I also know you have concerns about the transactions he hides and don’t want hi on debt and proble he didn’t want iven the docu"

"Yes, about that I heard he saw you together last night"

It’s a prompt for details I don’t offer "And as a response to that encounter, thisEmily, to see if he can trust her"

She narrows her eyes onto make a habit of this?"

"E of Eht very little with her Order her anything and everything you think she needs and have it delivered here And whatever you do, don’t tell her She’ll et her fully moved in"

Her lips part and she starts to speak and then stops, then starts again "She’sin?"

"She already did"

"Oh," she says, and she looks like she

I arch a brow "Since when do you bite your tongue withto make her quit her job to protect her from your family You even pushed her away and broke off contact Now, she’s sitting at your father’s door with your blessing and living in your house What changed?"

"My mind," I say, not about to tell her the details of Emily’s past "Buy her what she needs Have it delivered here and ith Tai to ensure it’s not all sitting out in the open when she gets hoain"

"Nailed hts exactly"

Her lips purse "Fine Can I look at what she has already?"

"Nothing Start fro? As in clothes, shoes, makeup, and purses? Purses are expensive"

"Whatever she needs"

"Don’t you think she ht want to pick some of it out herself?"