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“Do you have to leave?” I asked, still frowning

“Unfortunately baby, I do Riding a Harley and h I wish it did” I s to work I admired his dedication, which was much like my own

“Well, hurry back or Ithat will result in you repri

“Oh, baby Hoish you would” He kissedme breathless and stood to leave “CallI’ll be back as soon as I can” And with that, he was gone

Chapter 12

The next few hours flew by as I busied myself ork I responded to every email in my inbox and went back to review some previous ones I had over looked My office in Tupelo contactedsome issues with Apparently the tenants had been somewhat destructive and had not held up to their end of the deal They had received a notice of eviction, and were now giving threatening calls to the office er

I didn’t have many homestead rental properties; I usually just dealt with commercial unless I purchased a company who already had them This was one of those cases We had had issues with these same properties before When people moved out, I did not rent the houses to anyone else I fixed them up and sold them

I only had two tenants left One was an elderly lady whose children wanted her in a rental house, because of some issues with her life insurance They claimed she couldn’t have any property in her name and it was easier for her just to rent It sounded shady to me, but they always paid on time and the woman was very kind

The other property, housed a median income family I had attempted to contact them on several occasions to see if they would be interested in a rent to own deal, but I never received a response My branchhim know that I would be there Tuesday to handle the o talk to the fa out that didn’t include the them out on their ass

My phone rang and I scrambled to the other room find it It was Luke, and my pulse immediately quickened when I saw his name “Hey baby!” I answered

“Baby? And what ‘fraid tell have I done do receive that endear I never used pet names, so I was just as shocked to hear me say it as he was

“Do you prefer Luke?”