Love Lies Bleeding (Tightrope Book 2) by L Knight

Author:L Knight [Knight, L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

18. Cherry

“Why are you here?”

Folding my arms in front of me, I glare at Jake who is working on his laptop at the end of the counter. My shop seems to have become his new base of operations and I don’t like it, because I’m getting far too used to having him around and that’s a dangerous thing. Not that we talk much, or do anything really, we kind of tiptoe around each other in a forced politeness.

Jake looks up from his screen and lifts his eyebrow in question as if I’m stupid. “You know why, Blossom.”

“I don’t need your help.” I throw up my hands determined to talk to Lexi about this now that Theo is here and she’s under slightly less stress. She and Hunter are in the Hamptons this weekend but when she comes back, she needs to call Jake off. Eight weeks of seeing him almost every day is too much for my poor heart.

“Maybe not but you have it anyway.”

Not willing to deal with him anymore, I studiously ignore him, or at least I try to. Jake is too much of a presence to be ignored though. Even silent, he’s loud. I’m aware of every move he makes. My phone ringing makes me jump, but that turns into a groan of frustration when I see Harvey’s name on the screen.

Grabbing it up, I head to the back for some privacy. This call isn’t going to be any less frustrating than the others, I’m sure. “Hey, Harvey, tell me you have some good news.”

I hear a beleaguered sigh down the phone and roll my eyes to the heavens as he begins his litany of excuses. “Cherry, you should take the offer from KLM. You don’t have the finances to fight them and win. At this point, you have the upper hand but once they’ve bled you dry they’ll lower the offer for the property.”

My blood almost boils with anger at the injustice of what these people are trying to do. “So that’s it? I just have to let my mom lose the one thing in her life that brings her joy?”

“I wish I could say no, but a corporation this size has almost limitless funding. You can’t win, Cherry. Not unless you have a fairy godmother tucked away somewhere.”

I know I could ask Hunter. He’d help me in a minute, but I’d never abuse my friendships like that, and he and Lexi have enough on their plate.

Blowing out a breath, I feel nauseous anxiety build in my belly. A sick feeling that I’m going to have to sell my mom’s salon to some rich developer who won’t take no for an answer. “Okay, Harvey. Don’t say anything to KLM yet. Just give me a week to think about it.”

“It’s the right thing to do, Cherry.”

“I’ll call you.”

Hanging up, I close my eyes and lean my forehead against the wall of the storeroom as defeat washes over me.

“Why are you dealing with KLM?”

I push off the wall

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