Love Me Nots by Lydia Michaels

Author:Lydia Michaels [Michaels, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781735467771
Publisher: Lydia Michaels

Chapter 8

Perrin called the bank and requested all the details available on the property, her property. While they wouldn’t reveal the buyer, she already knew it was Gage. Although they couldn’t give the exact offer price, they did say it was several thousand over the asking. Either way, his offer was still on the table, and they were scheduled to settle on the twenty-ninth.

For more than a week, Perrin had been bouncing between the third and fourth stages of grief. She’d done denial, refusing to accept that this was once again her life and she’d been duped again. Then she’d slid neatly into the anger of hating men and their penises, which seemed to be everywhere. Could they never just be with one woman? Next came the instinct to bargain, quickly followed up with depression. So, when she wasn’t sulking over a pint of ice cream, she was concocting maniacal plans to take down Gage King and get back her land.

She didn’t have any extra money to compete with his deal. Nor did she have the equity to roll a cash deal like Gage. She had nothing. Nothing but her ice cream.

Plunging her spoon into the melted chocolate, she flopped to her back and stared at the ceiling of her loft. Depression was winning today.

She desperately wanted to expand. In her heart, she knew that was the answer, where her future was meant to go. If they grew the bar, it would no longer be the old O’Malley’s, but a great new business able to stay afloat with all the other start-ups taking shape in Jasper Falls.

Without some sort of new branding and allure, O’Malley’s would descend to hole-in-the-wall status and eventually disappear. She didn’t want to see all of her and Maggie’s hard work, money, and time wasted. And bars like theirs didn’t simply go away overnight. They died slow deaths that left owners with nothing but a story that started out like once, I owned a bar…

She couldn’t let this place suck them dry. It could either be an amazing investment or a soul-sucking debt. The town was changing. They had to change with it. Which was exactly why the prior owners had sold, they didn’t have the energy for rebranding. But Perrin did.

Not only that, running the bar did something for her. It kept her thoughts occupied and her life busy enough she hardly noticed the empty spots anymore. She didn’t want to go back to washing hair at a salon.

If they got the land and made the addition, eventually a profit would turn. That meant more money for everyone. It meant moving out of her tiny loft and possibly buying a house someday. There had to be a way to make that happen.

She dug her spoon deep in the ice cream and took a bite. Her eyes staring at the blank television, her imagination seeing the addition take shape. She was back to bargaining, willing to do whatever it would take to have that land. Money wasn’t the only way to do business.

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