Chapter 1: The Guest Who Forgot Her Place 027

“I didn’t sign anything.”

“Your name isn’t on the application.

Mine is.”

“Daniel said he had a way to make it look legitimate.”

Andrew looked up sharply.

“What exactly did he tell you?”

Kayla rubbed her forehead.

“He said he knew someone at the lending company.

He said they could make the loan look like a business expansion, and that the money would be transferred to an account he controlled.”

“And your part?”

“I was supposed to help him get the documents together.”

“Why?”

“He promised me a job.”

The answer was so small, so ordinary, that for a moment I couldn’t speak.

She had risked my financial security for a job she didn’t have, with a man she barely knew, because she wanted to believe he would rescue her.

“Did he promise you anything else?”

I asked.

Her silence answered before she did.

“He said we could leave town together,” she whispered.

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