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And Jenna had agreed because she hadn’t had the gumption to stand up to her father

But when the wedding date started to get closer and neither one of them had been able to see themselves married to the other

Liaiven his word And because the idea of a kid of his own so on him

He’d have been faithful to Jenna

He just wouldn’t have been happy with her

So when she’d begged him to dump her, he had

Lia out

“I’ to do “I should have told you about the deal I arateful for all that you’ve done for me I just need to be my own man, Dad Surely you can understand that”

His father’s steely blue gaze didn’t warer trust you”

“Of course you can You know me”

“That’s where you’re wrong, son I would have bet this building, my entire empire, on the fact that you would never be duplicitous with me”

He’d needed to make the deal on his own He needed Marie and Gabrielle solidly in his life To have so, someone, to call his own Someone he could trust with his inside self

“It’s a worthless apart” By Connelly standards

“Then you’re stupider than I thought, trading your future for a worthless piece of real estate”

The oldhim There was a way to turn this around He had to know his father well enough to find it