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“I told you I’rumbled

“You’ve lost too oing, woman End of discussion”

I turned my eyes ahen he bent his head to brush his lips across hers again That kiss said everything that no words had the ability to It said that Gracie was his light on cold, dark days That she was everything sweet and good in his world, and that he would kill anyone or anything that ever tried to take her away froiven me countless times, and it broke my heart a little more to see someone else experience it now

“Fine,” Gracie said with a breathless sigh “I’ll be ready, but I’ you it’s just stress”

“Love you,” he called as he got onto his hog

She waved “I love you too”

Turning back to me, her smile still in place, she“Jenkins toldso it would be ready I think it’s all set to be signed Can I get you anything? So to drink?”

I shook ether to hide the fact thatNow that I ay fro down fro I felt weak now,me feel

And I fucking I hated that now I doubted Matt That all I could see when I closed s he did to me in bed

“Okay then, let’s go into h to let the receptionist knohat she was doing and then led the way into her office

Graciea few heavy files out of her way as she dug out the documents needed “Jenkins told me the basics of yourshe owned to you, but other than a monthly allowance, it’s been in a trust until your twenty-first birthday Which is next week?”

“Um, yeah That’s it in a nutshell” I was slower to sit down, but once I was offdown onto slip, and I realized that dealing with this right now hadn’t been the best idea Re to have her holdtoaround in my head any easier to deal with “Mr Jenkins said I needed to sign some papers”

“Right” She flipped through the docue as she e, her eyes widened, and she lifted them to me “There’s a note here that says your father has already been questioning Jenkins about thenumber for the money to be deposited Is this really where you want the o?”

It shouldn’t have surprised me, but part of me was still stunned by what she had just said My father was so desperate to get his hands on all thatto trickall of it into an account I probably would never be able to access This, on top of everything else, was too much, and I felt the tears well up in my eyes, impossible to hold back

“I-I…” I sed, but it suddenly felt like I couldn’t breathe Nothing would co out I felt dizzy and knew if I had been standing, I would have fallen on my face