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“I can’t let you do this, Joe. It takes away my independence.”
“What? How the hell do you figure that?”
“You paying all that money, it’s wrong. I need to pay you back, or I’ll feel—”
“If the next word to come out of your mouth is beholden, I’ll be really fucking angry!”
“We’ll talk about this later. Right now I have to go.”
“What? Where are you going?”
“I have to talk to my grandfather, in case you’re right and he is leaving. I need to tell him we are not getting married—”
“We are!” Joe cut her off before she could say “yet.” “Don’t you run away from me, Bailey!”
“I love you, Joe, but I need to go and talk to him. I need to get him to release my money.”
“You are not paying me back!”
She leaned across the desk and kissed the angry line of his mouth. Stepping back before he could grab her, Bailey headed for the door.
“I love you.”
“Bailey!” he roared as she ran out the door and down the stairs. Once in the street, she got in her car and headed to the lodge.
Angie was at reception.
“Hi, Bailey.”
“Hi. Do you know where my grandfather is, Angie?”
“He’s in the sunroom.”
“Thanks.”
She found him drinking tea with Mr. Goldhirsh, and not packing like she’d hoped.
“I need to talk to you, Grandfather.”
“If you have come to discuss marriage to that Joseph Trainer, then I have nothing to say on the matter.”
“Joe is a good man, Leonard. Bailey would do well married to him,” Mr. Goldhirsh said.
When had her grandfather become Leonard?
“But then she would stay here.”
“Where she wishes to stay,” Bailey interrupted. “I also want you to release my money.”
He waved a hand. “I had planned to do that, and I apologize for keeping it from you, Bailey. I had no right to do so. But I was angry that you appeared to be happy to throw aside everything you worked so hard for.”
“I no longer wish to perform.”
He looked sad.
“Why were you in Joe’s office, Grandfather?”
“To discuss you. I had seen how close you were to him, and after the conversation I had with Mary Howard—”
