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118 Hide In Plain Sight
He blinked. Then his face tightened, brown eyes
turning cold. “Maybe you should ask your grandmother
that.”
“I’m asking you.” Small wonder Grams hadn’t
confided in her about this dubious rental. She’d have
known how Andrea would react. If Grams planned to
run the inn on these lines, she’d be bankrupt in a month.
Cal looked at her steadily. “You’d better tell me what
this is about, Andrea. I’m not good at guessing games.”
He leaned against the bar between kitchen and living
room, elbows propped on it. The pose might have
looked casual, if not for the muscle that twitched in his
jaw, belying his outward calm.
“This.” She thrust the lease at him, appalled to see
that her hand was shaking. “How did you talk my
grandmother into this? She might be naive about
business, but surely she realized how ridiculous the
rent is. And for both your home and your business—
you really got a great deal, didn’t you?”
He made no move to take the paper, but his hands
curled into fists. “Did you talk to your grandmother?”
“I’m talking to you. The person who’s cheating her.”
The person who lied to me and made me let my guard
down. The person I thought I could trust.
Cal thrust himself away from the counter, taking a
step toward her. “You don’t believe that.” He stopped,
shaking his head. “My mistake. I guess you do.”
“I was the one who made the mistake. I trusted you.”
She would not let her voice break. “How could you do
this to an old woman?”
His face might have been carved from a block of