All the Lies We Tell (Quarry Road Book 1) by Megan Hart

Author:Megan Hart [Hart, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2017-04-30T18:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Theresa had spent a good portion of the past few days putting this deal together, and she had to admit, it was one of the best she’d ever come up with. Making connections was a skill, one she’d had to rely on more than ever since . . . well, if this all worked out, none of that other stuff would matter. She pushed aside all that to look over the packet she’d printed up. The lists of agreements and concessions for each party, the responsibilities and, most important, the payout. She grinned. This was going to work. It was all going to be okay.

“Ilya?” She knocked lightly on his door and stepped through, looking around the room. “Oh. Wow.”

“Galina insisted on taking back the master,” he said from his place on the sagging double bed.

Theresa looked over the yellowed posters of sports figures and cartoon cats and racing cars. “Uh-huh. Okay.”

Ilya sat up, looking irritated, but then he laughed. “Okay, you caught me. I’m still a really, really big fan of Garfield.”

She moved farther into the room, looking for a chair and finding only the bed to sit on. She took a spot at the foot, laughing self-consciously at the bed’s sudden creaking protest. “Yikes.”

“Right?” He bounced, making it squeak. “What a pain in the ass.”

“Listen, I brought you something. I was going to talk to you and Allie at the same time after dinner, but she’s busy.” Theresa had overheard the soft murmurs of conversation between Allie and Niko in the kitchen but hadn’t wanted to risk walking in on them if they were doing something they didn’t want anyone to see. She slid the thick white envelope, his copy of the offer, across the bed to him. “So I brought this for you. The two of you can talk about it together and get back to me.”

He shifted closer to take the envelope. “What is it?”

“It’s an offer. To buy the quarry. And Go Deep.” Theresa cleared her throat. “I work with Diamond Development Corporation. They want to put in a hotel with a water park and make some improvements—”

“Allie knew about this?”

“I gave her the official offer a couple days ago. Yes.” Theresa nodded. “That’s part of what I’ve been doing here in town—”

“Talking to Allie behind my back?” Ilya stood and tossed the envelope onto the bed toward her. “What are you doing, ganging up on me? What the hell, Theresa?”

She frowned and gathered the loose papers that had started to come out of the envelope. “Of course not. Don’t be ridiculous.”

“My grandmother died,” Ilya said through clenched jaws. “She’s dead, Theresa. And you’re using that as a way to get me to agree to get bought out by some bunch of corporate pricks who want to rip apart everything I’ve built and turn it into some . . . what, some kind of amusement park?”

“It wasn’t like that!”

His fists clenched at his sides. “No? Pretty convenient that you showed up just in time, huh?”

“I came to pay my respects, and I would have done that, anyway,” Theresa said.

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