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What was happening?
“I don’t understand. How do you know him, Gramps?”
“He came to see us on Saturday.”
“What?”
“He wanted to assure me personally that nothing was going to happen to Everry Place. He told me, you’re the one who owns the whole building now.”
“I... what?”
Clearly, she was having an episode of incomprehension. Nothing made the least amount of sense.
“Pumpkin, darling. The man gave you the deed to this building.”
She gasped as it finally sank in. He had gifted her a whole freaking plane; would he also give her this whole building?
“I’m so lost. Then why are you leaving Everry Place? What is going on?”
Her grandfather took her hands in his weathered ones.
“When Hunter came to see me and assured me nothing was going to happen to Everry Place because my granddaughter owned the whole building, there was something about him I trusted immediately. I decided to confide in him, Pumpkin.”
“About what?” She knew everything there was to know about their lives.
“When he said your name, I knew there was a man who would forever be haunted by you no matter where in the world he ended up. Trust me, I know the look; I can hear the tone of his voice.”
Her head was truly going to explode. Yes, she had said that a few times already, but this, this was going to be the spark that would set it off.
“I told him I was sick.”
“You’re what?” Kensley asked, standing up from the seat and going to her grandfather. He rose too.
“Now, it’s nothing too serious. I just have to have a small operation on my heart.”
“What?” she cried frantically. She knew her grandparents were old, and she knew she didn’t have that much time with them, but this was too much.
“It’s nothing too serious, Pumpkin. I promise you. I’m going to have the best care in the world. I’m going to be all right. And so are you, with a man like Hunter on your side.”
Kensley listened, awestruck by everything her grandfather divulged. She then sat completely stunned for a few minutes as she tried to absorb everything.
And still, she was finding it hard to connect the pieces.
“He did this all for you, Kensley.”
Those were her grandfather’s parting words to her when she left Everry Place.
But there was something else that she found herself wracking her brain over. Hunter’s words to her...
I can’t take you with me, Kensley. Not where I’m going.
What exactly did that mean? Where was he going? Why couldn’t she go with him?
It was already so late, and poor Karl was still waiting for her outside the building. But he refused to come up with her to her grandparents’ apartment. She felt horrible for keeping him so long, but she needed to get home to Hunter immediately.
She waved to her grandfather, who stood watching from the window as she climbed into the Aston Martin. He had insisted on walking her to the car, but she made the valid point that if her gran woke up and found herself alone, it would leave her distraught for days.
“I’m so sorry, Karl, for keeping you. But can you drive me home, ple—”
