By Aimee Alexander
From the simplest promoting writer of Pause to Rewind comes this relocating family members drama in regards to the lengths we visit for the folks we love.
Lucy Arigho isn't the kind of girl to be swept off her ft. She is sober, career-minded and numb because the demise of her fiancé. So it's thoroughly out of personality for her to race a guy in site visitors - or even more odd once they meet back and she or he is aggravated, intrigued and eventually enraptured by means of the driving force, author Greg Millar. inside 8 weeks, she is heavily contemplating his pleas to marry him and brooding about if she will tackle his motherless teenagers. yet ahead of she will be able to come to a decision approximately turning into a part of Greg's global, occasions plunge her correct into it. Her cautious lifestyles is shattered as she has to determine the right way to deal with weak young children and face the truth that she doesn't quite be aware of the fellow whose lifestyles has so crushed hers.
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Big men in their mid-thirties, they both wore dark business suits. Paul was alarmed when he saw the same two men a bit later. Now they were sipping coffee in a booth on the other side of the restaurant. Maybe it’s just my imagination, Paul thought, but these two guys sure seem to be following me. Paul hadn’t forgotten about the attempt on his life back in Ebano. Now he began to wonder if these were hired 51 THE FLOODGATES goons who’d been sent to finish the job. He took his time eating as he figured out how to elude the two strangers.
He yelled at the young Mexican man. After slamming the door, Paul phoned Manuel’s room. “You’ll never believe what just happened,” he said. ” Manuel sat on the edge of the bed, listening in amazement to Paul’s story. By the time Paul finished, Manuel was looking deeply concerned. “You must be very careful, mi amigo,” Manuel said. “Your report could put the materials supplier out of business—maybe even in prison! ” 29 THE FLOODGATES “I’m sure it does,” Paul said, shaking his head. “But there’s not much we can do about it right this moment.
If core samples verified his suspicions, he could complete his report by this evening. Now that he was working alone, the work went a little slower. But by noon Paul had all the evidence he needed. The few samples he’d drilled indicated that the reinforcing rods were indeed only one-half inch. And the concrete used had indeed been an inferior mix with very little crushed stone. It looked as if everything Henry Buckingham had said was true. Paul was gathering his equipment 37 THE FLOODGATES when he heard strange sounds.
