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“I brought you the financial state out the manila folder

“You’re serious?”

It was her turn to be confused, and she gratefully switched her focus to business “Of course I aht you’d need them”

“Are we in the black?”

“Of course we are!” When he didn’t take the file, she lowered her ar behind it

“Then that’s all I need to know”

“It is?”

“Please, sit down Would you like a drink?”

“No, thank you”

She perched on the edge of an arht, while he walked over to the small bar She noticed he was in his bare feet and for a aze was drawn to the frayed heainst the skin of his heel

She couldn’t let his good looks distract her She’d bet anything he are of his appearance and used it to his advantage all the time But it wouldn’t ith her She wasn’t so naive as that

He wasn’t interested in the nu to do to the hotel? Run it into the ground? Every decision she’d ht out, balanced against the pros and cons What to do, where to live, what to wear and say…And he was treating this whole thing like it was no big deal More and ame But it was her livelihood It was all she had She’d built it fro—life on a silver platter

“What are your plans for the Cascade?” She spoke to his back as he poured a glass of red wine, filling a second glass despite her decline

He returned and handed her the glass, then perched on the ar the hotel is going to be fun”

Fun? Her heart sank further Great He was char it In fact he was the firstToronto Her eyes narrowed Acknowledging his good looksexcept that she still had eyes to see with Taking her livelihood in his hands for fun didn’t sit well