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In the backseat of the liia could feel the tension between them Austin didn't look at her, and she didn't much want to see the look in his eyes either He intentionally kept his distance and she stared out the , looking, but not really seeing anything

At length, Austin asked, "Why do I get the feeling I've been used?"

His tone was accusing and she instantly beca have you knoho I am?"

"Does it matter?"

"I suppose not" He turned his face away too

"If my parents had not been there, ould have had a lovely evening and you would never have known"

"I suppose not…not unless you decided to be honest with ivable?"

He couldn't hide his anger as he turned to her "You ht about it, but hoas I to know if you favored the and keep the it has taken ether"

"Why did you want theether?"

Her resentment was evident in her voice when she answered "I wanted to scream at them - to shame them in a place where everyone could hearit for years"

He tried to soften his voice, but he wasn't very successful "I suppose I can understand that"

"I didn't truly think they would be there, but I could not pass up the opportunity You had an invitation and I needed one"

Austin opened the bar and poured hi her one "Well, at least you have accomplished what you set out to do"

"Have I? Neither of them looked shamed Matheas furious and Laura was shocked"

He snidely said, "Perhaps I should have shouted when I introduced you"

She sighed, looked out theagain and let the cold silence between the while Yet, she had a question she wanted answered, "Do you believe Laura truly didn't kno to find me?"

"It explains why she didn't tell her father Nick would have exploded and ruined any chance she had of getting Mathew to tell her"

"I believed her too May I have my birth certificate?"

He opened his jacket, pulled out the certificate, and handed it to her

"Thank you" Georgia unfolded it, glanced down the page, folded it back up, and laid her hand in her lap She couldn't think of anything to say that would ease the awful tension between theed the subject "I don't care about the inheritance"