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“You should have hired soh she knew the words didn’t help anything She was trying to think To determine their next move

Did they sign the papers? Or not?

“I trust George with my life Or I did until today”

Hadn’t he once said soe? Lia the man would uphold his word And e had been the leak So often when so was amiss the obvious culprit was not at fault At least in her experience None of which was helping the current situation

“So what did your father say? Is he going to be difficult?” The building was not going to be a money-maker It was oing to cost the run And, best-case scenario, it would make them a few dollars apiece a year or tn the road

It was also doubling as a home for Marie and Gabrielle Marie’s coffee shop would be paying the from the current owner Its success had provided her portion of the Arapahoe down payment

“No, he’s not going to be difficult” Liaht about the cup of coffee she’d turned dohen the three of them had arrived She didn’t need the caffeine But now she wanted the warmth

“I have his word that he will not, in any way, interfere with, has”

She stared at hiht? So why that rim defender on his face?

Until he caught her looking Then he smiled Gave her a soft fist to the shoulder of her blue suit jacket and said, “Let’s go buy a building, partner”

Wishing, inanely, that she could hold his hand, Gabrielle followed Liam back to Marie

They were her fae-dropout brothers who’d moved down south a couple of years before and depended on her for financial help ive theood at what she did She had already h of a name for herself to be able to pick up extra work, privately, when she had to And her own living expenses were small since she still lived with Marie in the aparte

But her financial obligation was about to change

She was going to be a business owner

She, the girl who’d had to wear thrift-store clothes and shoes for the first eighteen years of her life, was about to become partners with one of the richest bachelors in Denver