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Funny how life had a way of sounding like so much more than it was

CHAPTER TWO

LIAM MADE IT through the signing of the papers He paid attention Read and reread the forms he’d already vetted After Gabrielle had vetted them The deal was sound

He’d planned to take his new partners out to lunch at the Capitol Grille—a place in historic Latimer Square where Denver’s elite and powerful movers and shakers were known to dine—but kneouldn’t be able to h for lunch to be served

Instead, he gave the hiether would be even better than their past, and told them he’d see them at the Arapahoe in an hour

or so

Gabi orking fro to the coffee shop

What they didn’t knoas that with soed a surprise party to celebrate this est in each of their lives, ifto miss it

But first, he had to get back to Connelly Invest on and to take on the fight of his life with his oldLia as he could remember Today was the day it stopped

Today was the day he’d called his father’s bluff in the real world

And noas tiime He’d have liked to feel better prepared

He’d planned to schedule awith his father after the Threefold papers had been signed Walter would have been displeased, to say the least, but there would have been no opportunity for hih on At least in part

He’d planned to prevent the threat stage and talk like rational adults

To have more solid plans, a clearer vision as to exactly what the neorld would look like He was going to be writingstories that had soe freelancer while on Connelly-financed vacations Writing about the world’s biggest catch didn’t interest hio

Skating in behind another car that was entering the bar-coded private garage, so that he didn’t have to wait for the bar to lower and the scanner to read his windshield, Lia—who turned in the direction opposite of the front spaces reserved for top-floor personnel