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My mouth goes dry. This can’t be true. I look from Knight to Dad, and the defeat in my father’s eyes freezes me.
Dad actually looks afraid. Afraid of Knight.
My father has never been afraid of anything.
“Dad? Is this true?”
He closes his eyes for a few seconds, and when he opens them again and nods, the ground shifts beneath me. But the fabric of reality rips open at the seams when something else dawns on me.
Knight is here.
He just said Dad is practically bankrupt.
Dad told me moments ago that he’d found someone else for me to marry. Someone who was interested in Sunset Cove.
It follows that…
I start shaking my head at my father. “Dad, who is this new person you found for me to marry?” Although the words have exited my brain, I’m still shaking my head.
“I think you already know the answer to that,Goddess,” Knight answers for Dad.
I stare back at him, and all the equations that didn’t make sense click together in my mind. As each one fuses with the missing answers, I feel physically sick.
It’s him.
Him.
Knight Grayson. And everything that’s happened over the last few days was all about getting Sunset Cove.
Meeting me at the restaurant, getting rid of my almost-fiancé, now this.
The revelation renders me speechless, and I swear everything inside me stops working as shock fuses with every atom of my body.
On seeing my dumbfounded state, Knight moves closer and stops a breath away, so the scent of his musky cologne tickles my nose. Without taking his eyes off me, he retrieves an envelope from the inside of his jacket pocket and places it beside me on the desk.
“Your contract, should you wish to accept.” He taps the envelope. “Along with the details of where to find me. You have until sundown to sign the contract and hand-deliver it to me. But if I were you, I wouldn’t allow the sun to go down before I made my choice.”
Knight inches away, cuts Dad a hard stare, then turns and leaves.
I watch him until he turns the corner, disappearing from my sight, then I look back at Dad.
We stare at each other, unblinking, unmoving, unbelieving.
How the actual hell did we get here?
Howcouldthis happen?
Knight said Dad made a bad business decision. My father never makesbadbusiness decisions. People from all over the world come to him because he’s renowned for what he does.
So, what happened?
“Dad. What did you do?” My voice is softer than that of a terrified child.
“I… tried to save your mother.” He swallows hard, and the brightness in his eyes fades like a dying star. “It cost me everything. I tried one bizarre treatment after another to save her. All of them failed. I didn’t want to lose her again, but I did.”
My lips part, and a tear seeps out of the walls of my heart.
He was trying to save heragain. Just like the past.
