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And, in retrospect, theirs, too

Taking Lia on the unhealthy and rocky relationship he had with his old man

Rocking back and forth in his expensive leather shoes, Liaray pants and looked down “I intended to Right after the papers were signed”

She wanted to ask who’d spilled the beans to the elder Connelly, but the who didn’t matter Nor, really, did the why When you lived in circles where money was the most important factor, people stabbed friends and family if it meant they had a chance to climb even half a step

Which was part of the reason, she knew, that Liao Because they weren’t part of that circle

And didn’t want to be

“So what’d he say?”

Liah

“He didn’t forbid it?” Which hat she and Marie had expected

“He can’t” Liaht at her “I’, you know that”

Only for the down payment

“You’re living off your Connelly salary and living in a Connelly building”

Best that the deal fall through now Before any of them were financially ruined

Butnot really

Because if they didn’t sign those papers today,to be booted from their ho and still had penciled lines on the walls in the kitchens h the years