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"No"

Hope tightened her throat "Are you sure? Because, Cannon, I owe you--"

"You don’t" He cupped her face, his brows drawn in earnestness "Don’t talk like that"

But she knew the truth whether he’d accept it or not "I’ll sell in a heartbeat if that’s what you want We can call Whitaker’s office and--"

"What do you want?"

Such a loaded question She could tell hiain, that she wanted to feel, to experience that special, hot culmination of sexual involveain

But that would be laying too much on hie to "fix" her She couldn’t bear to go down that road again

Not with Cannon

His thu her jaw "Tell me the truth, Yvette"

She loved it when he touched her like this, when she felt his strength entleness It was a hot, macho, potent combination, and no one ever had possessed the sa her hands over his wrists, she looked up at hi you’re supposed to have"

His gaze dropped to her ht "Cannon," she chided

Pleasure showed in his blue eyes "Yvette"

She cleared her throat, deterrandfather wanted randfather wanted you to be happy," he said when she prepared to argue "You know it as well as I do, so don’t go there Instead be honest with me Tell me ould

"Yvette" He used his thumbs to turn up her face "If every option was open to you, ould you ht in his gaze "Tell me the truth"

Possibilities teased her and she smiled uncertainly "II’d want to reopen the shop"

His smile eased into place, too "Yeah? Would it still be a pawnshop?"

"Or an upscale resale shop" Enthusiasht me a lot, and I used what I learned for s I knew I could sell for a profit I have a lot of stock, stuff that I could set up in here And it’s the right time of year for me to buy more from yard sales"

Cannon pressed a firm, quick kiss to her mouth "I like it"

Carried aith the idea, and that tantalizing kiss, she breathed faster "In no tiood as it used to I could et everything set up"