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IT WAS REALLY going to happen

Standing at theof the bank, her back to the seats where Lia cheap coffee froazed out at the snow-covered Denver sidewalks and focused on breathing Not too deep She didn’t want to hyperventilate But passing out froen wouldn’t serve her well, either

You’d think with five years of professional practice under her belt, and having personally vetted the contract they were all about to sign, she would be cal a ho into No, they were si into their names the ownership of the historic Arapahoe—the old apart in and that Liaularly as he’d visited their doroing to be sharing the roomy three-bedrooht-floor building in historic Denver Marie’s coffee shop, a thriving business, was still going to encompass the entire bottom floor

Liam would now be an official part of them, part of the family, instead of just an honorary member

Gabi’s portion of the down payment hadn’t been a problee in preparation for the law school loans that would eventually come due in her future She’d continued to add to that account by working for Marie when she could during three years of law school, and when her loans had been paid off by the state as part of her es

Three-quarters of it was going into this deal

But all but two of the thirty-eight apart to them as the neners, thefifty years or overnment checks

Until the friends had made an offer on the place,desperately to find new homes A few already had The current owner’s rent increase, co in a matter of weeks, would have put overn homes Fixed incomes could only be stretched so far

Those who could afford to move had done so

Most of those left had been in tears when Threefold had held awith the residents to officially announce that they would soon berent checks out to the—not the new increased price

Threefold The name she and Liam and Marie had chosen for the LLC they’d fore it, too

Marie had come up with the name

Neither she nor Liaued

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Gabrielle felt soenerally didn’t let anyone sulk for long