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plans into what they wanted that I didn’t even always know what was going on.  
    Sometimes it seemed that they only did this because no one else was willing to stand up and fight for them with the HRC after such a massive loss. So they were dangling a piece of my design in front of me hoping that my desire to see it built would keep me hanging on through the disaster that they were creating.  
    The worst part was that it worked.  
    She was going to hate me, but did she really have a right? It wasn’t like she didn’t live her dream every day in that damned candy shop she had. I wasn’t that lucky. I had to fight to see my dream and besides, it was a piece of fucking land. It wasn’t like they were stealing it out from under her family.  
    I saw her name light up my phone as she tried to call and I just ignored. I was busy and didn’t have time to argue with her about this situation. It wasn’t like I could stop it, even if I wanted to. The good part of it was that if the decision was made early, this would stop and we could go on with our lives. The bad part was that I was beginning to wonder if that life would include us together.  
    “Monroe,” My boss snapped my name like I’d been caught stealing from the company. “Meeting in the conference room in ten. Be there.” He walked away as fast as he’d appeared. Maybe even faster.  
    I grabbed my notepad, the designs in case anyone had questions and my cup of coffee. This was going to be a long night and I had a feeling that it’d be one that would only leave me feeling worse than I already did.
    “Monroe, have a seat,” Morgan was an asshole as a boss, but the man knew damn well what he was doing. He pointed me to a spot and resumed his place at the far end of the room. His balding head was perspiring, a sign that he was nervous about what he was going to say. His hands twisted in front of his pudgy belly and made me feel nervous as well.  
    “I called you all in here to discuss Willow’s Resort,” he announced, confusing everyone in the room but himself. What the hell was Willow’s Resort? “That’s the name of the condo development we are building,” he grinned in my direction hoping I approved.
    “Willow’s Resort?” I asked, unhappy with the choice. “It’s a home. An all inclusive community. Not a resort.”
    “Well, that’s part of what I want to discuss,” he added, watching as my face turned red from anger. “we are proposing it as a resort,” he continued. “Naturally people can live there year round if they so choose.”
    “I didn’t design this to be a resort!” I heard my own anger as I yelled the response. “This was an all-inclusive home. It wasn’t meant to be overpriced and sold as a frivolous extra!”
    “You thought you could choose the price it sells for?” Brad laughed. “You design them, that’s it.”
    “No, but I assumed…”
    “What did you assume Monroe?” the boss pulled my attention back to him.  
    “That it’d be used for the purpose it was intended for.”
    “And it would have been,” Morgan answered, pausing briefly to pull out something from his file. “Then we discovered that the HRC is far more lenient on things that bring in tourists to their historical districts. Billing it as a resort will help us slide past a few of their rules and regulations.”
    “I thought we were doing this legit!” I snapped.  
    “It is legit Monroe,” he answered. “We are legitimately turning this little venture into a resort.”
    “That isn’t even an area that a resort would be placed,” I reminded him.  
    “Have you seen the tourism numbers for Asheville? For such a shitty little town they are astounding,” he laughed. “Who would have thought some little southern nothing place would attract so many?”
    “It’s not a nothing place. It’s actually very beautiful. And the people are super friendly.”
    “We know you have a lil fling here Monroe,” Morgan laughed again, followed by Brad.