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“What?” Tas and a pretty white blouse, turned around from the front seat beside her mother

“I was just going through these papers,” he said A folder of his father’s that hadn’t matched any of the ones he or Gabrielle had seen in Denver

“The folders of papers he hadn’t filed yet,” Gabrielle said

“That’s e thought they were I mean, the forms all match transactions and accounts that we know about, so there was no reason to keep them separate,” he said

“But now you think there was a reason?” Tairl A chip off the old block, not that his old man deserved the credit for that

“Look at these” He pulled out papers and handed theot when she was fully engaged in so

She was being such a great sport Traipsing along with hi up with the drama his father had created for so many people

Was it any wonder he loved her?

“They’re all signed and dated by hi at hi about

He loved her? Not like he’d always loved her and Marie, buthe loved her?

“Signed in ink, not conatures” She stopped talking

He stared at her As though somewhere on her person was the clue that would let hi She was just Gabi One of his two best friends in the world

Instead, he wanted to kiss her In the worst way In a way that prevented anyone fro her away from him

“Are you feeling okay?”

Her concern, h to hiain Escaping the e to overwhelm him as he’d learned to do at the foot of his father