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Her vision was definitely different fro the man she seemed to think he was

“What about this car? He didn’t take it”

“I paid it off last year, but even so, the old man kindly informed me that I elcome to keep it”

“He didn’t know you’d paid it off?”

“Are you kidding? Nothing happens without hi before I drove froet a rise out of me”

He waited for her to ask if it had Any other time she would have

But he hadn’t run to her this time He’d shut her out

“It didn’t,” he said, frowning as he signaled a turn and changed lanes “Get a rise out ofhis speed to two et him a ticket, and he didn’t have time for that

“You’re really cut off, Lia It means they have some pretty substantial evidence”

Biting back his irritation—as it that people couldn’t see that he was going to be just fine without his father’s money?—Liam said, “I was already really cut off”

“But”

“And you knohat?” He took a corner with enough speed that his tires kicked up gravel “When those agents toldfrozen, aze briefly before he returned his attention to the road “Yeah, relief,” he repeated,them completely so “For the first tiht of that black what I’ve been given, or le one of my decisions by the dictates of my inheritance”

“But—”

“I know, I’ve still goton that security while I get established I get that I’m really lucky”

“—I was going to say that your inheritance should never have been fodder for blackmail”