THE BATTLE FOR YOUR HEART

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What was going on? I have been

ket. William was calling again. I answere

willed Echo Pines to his niece, Anny Everett and now she's hesitating on

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place is making a killing, but they're also turning down reservations because they keep getting booked up, and a good portion of their guests are coming from Georgia. Echo P

nt for William man Partners,"

u're against this investment idea is bec

t investments. Second, you were on your way to look at another mountain lodge when your plane crashed. Now, just before signing the contract to sell Echo Pines to us, Ma

e facts negates the opportunity. Echo Pines is a low-cost acquisition and should be an

er the contract on Monday. It won't take much to get a signature once sh

erything becomes more complicated. I have a bad feeling about this. We are not w

You are." I dropped down on the co

NW International but she's important to me too. I want to make her happy. I know this is a switch for me, but I just don't want to mess t

ve-carat family heirloom if she didn't believe his

ting for water in the desert. Now he was ready for marriage and all the other things that came with it. That was

vised him to let it go. I had resented William not being on his side, but at that

father. A couple of years after I had lost Amelia, whatever remaining faith I had in him was obl

International. That had happened five years ago, and a rift had existed between us eve

ense, "Emily wants to throw a party for my thirty-fourth birthday. That's wh

s business prowess had removed them from our father's influ

me in their personal lives, ending the Chesterfield men's legacy of broken

shot at happiness and I would do all I could to