rom the jewelry and pawn store, they had always been careful to a

you in here? Mm

ou know? Did you he

ent back to his work. "Do you

t. We got the no

s now. With his

" Rhys

ised you guys were hearing it for the first time yeste

kind of weird energy. It was crushing the other two busin

hed us. I mean, we're literally sandwiched between the two. Most t

g what you guys are doing. Tell me, "How

d inwardly. "I don't know. I don't really keep cou

See what

mean. I'm just here to know if you k

ugh dough on him to buy so much property at on

. Neal was the first-hand pusher of news and information around, and if he

after watching Neal twis

, Sophie was at his post, sig

He gree

th a nod of her hea

nows as much abo

is desk and watched her as she fiddled with her notepad. From acr

od?" He

rmed an unpleasant pout across her beautiful face and in the tear that threatened to fall from her ey

shown across her face, was something else. Something he had ne

r quivering lips, Rhys could only come to

t time she broke apart so much in front of him, it worried him. He stood from

nd led Sophie into the comfort of her office,

ettled in her chair, Rhys placed the notepad and a pen on her lap

d softly, leaning in more

nd her lips quivered. She dug into her pocket an

yes and then at the phone. She nodded s

nd a message that she had received from her aunt the

ur uncle has taken ill seriously, and there is no one I can think of to turn to in this hard time but you. Despite our differences, we are

Eliana

hat to make of it. This was the most of her past that Sophie

shook like a leaf and made her hide in his

ace and as she wrung her fingers. He dropped the phone on the t

e to come with yo

ace and looked into his ey

e to, I will.

she bobbed her head up and down a

e answer was still in her past, then he could find it and make sure