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playing with her A-game and he needed to as well.
    “You were going to tell me all your secrets,” he said.
    She laughed. “I was going to tell you the official version of my life.”
    “I’ll take whatever you offer,” he said.
    “I bet you will. Okay, where to start?”
    “The beginning,” he suggested, shifting his legs to make room in his pants for his growing erection.
    “Birth?”
    “Nah, skip to college. I did a little internet research on you and saw that you graduated from the University of Miami. What made you choose to go to Fordham LawSchool instead of choosing something closer to home?” he asked.
    “I needed a change of scene. I was pretty sure that I wanted to practice corporate law and I had done an internship for one summer with the firm that I work for now. So it made sense to go there.”
    “That’s about the same time your grandparents sold the marketplace and switched over to being renters in the space. Did they do that to pay for your education?” he asked.
    Her face got very tight and she shook her head. “I had a scholarship.”
    “I did a deed search to see who had owned the property before the previous owner and it was your grandfather. I can’t understand why he sold,” Justin continued. He really wanted to know why ten years ago, Tomas had made the decision to sell the marketplace property and become a rental tenant instead. That made no sense to Justin as a businessman. But it also made no sense based on what he knew of Tomas. Tomas liked being his own boss.
    “What about you? Harvard law graduates can usually write their own ticket to any law firm but you came back home and worked with your brothers instead, why?”
    Justin stretched back and looked at her for a minute. That was complicated. He couldn’t tell her that coming back was the hardest decision he’d ever made because even his brothers didn’t know that.
    “They needed me,” he said. It was close to the truth. He didn’t hold with outright lies.
    He took another sip of his drink and then leaned forward. “Why are you here now?”
    “My grandfather said you were too slick and he couldn’t trust you.”
    “That’s hardly true. Tomas is very shrewd. And don’t change the subject. Why did he sell the marketplace if not for your education?”
    She flushed and her hand trembled for a minute and then she took a sip of her drink.
    He waited for her to answer but she didn’t say anything.
    “Selena?”
    “That is a private matter and I won’t discuss it with you.”
     
    Selena was surprised that he’d dug back on the deed. But she shouldn’t have been. She may have momentarily distracted Justin with her clothing and changed appearance but he’d adjusted quickly by pulling the rug out from under her with that question.
    “Okay. I can respect that. I was just thinking that if they hadn’t sold the property perhaps it wouldn’t be so derelict now,” Justin said.
    He was right. Selling that property had been a mistake and that was why she was here. To right the wrong she’d caused when she’d allowed herself to get suckered by a smooth-talking con man ten years ago.
    She’d never seen him coming, Raul had swept her off her feet, and then once she’d fallen for his sweet talk, he’d used that love she had for him against her. The con he’d run on her had been simple enough. He was starting his own company, a luxury yacht business, and needed some initial investors. She’d put all of the inheritance she’d gotten from her parents into it, and in a calculated move on Raul’s part she’d convinced her grandparents to mortgage the market and invest, as well. Raul took all the money and disappeared overnight.
    The ensuing investigation into Raul’s disappearancehad been an upheaval in their lives. It had taken almost two years to get it sorted out and at the end with lawyers’ fees and private investigator charges her grandparents had no money left. They were forced to sell the marketplace and become