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“Cole?” she asks

“Yeah darlin’?”

“I really ary now,” she says

I chuckle and finish toweling off “Yeah I’ve worked up a bit of an appetite myself What would you like?”

She thinks for a o into town to Madge’s I’ve been thinking about that pie all day”

We go to our roo roo a soft yellow fitted t-shirt and faded jeans that hug her curves in all the right places It takes every ounce of my self-control not to throw her down and fuck the shit out of her right there on the floor

We walk into the diner and the sreets us enthusiastically Once we are seated, the other guests start peppering Sydney with questions: How does she like it so far? A her to the fair this weekend? Sydney graciously answers the questions, ed The way she is endearing herself to these folks I’ve known all my life makes me sith pride I sio

Once the rest return to their own tables, we place our orders and settle in to wait for our food Sydney suddenly looks uncomfortable and I reach over the table to take her hand in mine

“What’s up?” I ask

She looks at ure out the best way to tellto want to hear I hold up

“Ben’s got a case, doesn’t he?” I ask

She nods apologetically “I’ve dug through every property law I can find but it’s all co out as I suspected Since the property illed equally to the three of you, he is entitled to his third And seeing as how the profits were made from business run on that land, he is entitled to that as well”

I sit back in the booth and run a hand overin my stomach “What are our options?” I ask

Now its Sydney’s turn to look ill “Well you can either cut him in on a third of the profits from here on out, or you and Luke can buy him out of his share of the land”

My brain quickly starts to do the calculations “And if we don’t have enough liquid cash to buy him out?”