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"That’s because I didn’t want any of you!" Connor snapped

"What the hell do you e

"We’re a fking catch!" Sean snapped

"You’d be lucky to get guys like us! Lucky!" Bryce said, sounding pissed and insulted

"I don’t want any of you!" Connor snapped

"You bastard!" Johnny gasped as her brothers glared at hi her attention, but not enough to look away froh one swollen eye

"Yes?"

"Do you love him?"

"Yes," she said softly with a s

"And what are you willing to do to prove tothe truth and that you love her?" her father de Connor intently as he waited

For aas dread twisted in her gut She wanted to tell her father that he didn’t have to prove anything, but she needed to know that their deal was truly a thing of the past

Connor looked up andShe can havethat I have I don’t care about any of it The only thing that I want is her"

In thatof the past Connor loved his house and would never willingly give it up She’d been expecting a fight over it Giving it up wasn’t easy for hi, but to prove howfor her

She bit back a s it over "What about the bathtub?"

"It’s yours"

"Will you stop stealing htly bruised handso his head so that he could press a kiss against her palm "But I’ll learn to make it the way that you like it and hland Construction is o to combine the companies and run it with him

"Yes," he said with absolutely no hesitation

"You’ll work for me?"

"Yes"

"Fetch my drinks?"

"No"

"Be atthe way his poor abused lips kicked up into a grin

"No"

She sighed heavily as she said, "You really suck at interviews"

"Do I have the job?" he asked, giving her that bad boy smile that she loved

"I’ll have to think about it," she said with a shrug as she turned to walk away