Talk This Way. Dakota Cassidy

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      “As if that’s not a hyphen on your name?”

      “So will you hear me out?”

      Her throat went dry. “I’m almost afraid to answer that.”

      “Will you listen if it means you’ll have security and a 401K?”

      Cat fought a sharp inhale. All the things she’d never had. Resources she could have tapped into had she played by the rules. “How do you know I don’t have one already?”

      “I make it my business to know everything about the people I like—especially the people I like who are in a nasty pinch.”

      He didn’t say it as though he had a leg up on her, or even like he was looking down his nose at her. “Have you been pryin’ into my personal affairs, Wells? Using all that lovely money to research my sordid past?” she teased.

      But Landon merely chuckled at her reaction. “Now don’t go gettin’ the wrong idea there, pretty lady. I’m not some crazy who wants to collect your skin to make a coat. I know our friendship hasn’t extended outside of Oakdale, but my intentions are all on the up-and-up. So just say you’ll hear my pitch, and if you don’t like what I propose, you can get up and walk away, and never see me again. But not before you tell me the secret to those happy swirls of whipped cream.” He winked.

      Really. What did she have to lose but a few minutes of her time she’d only spend berating herself for this vicious cycle of unemployment she was caught up in? She was broke and desperate and all Landon required was her ears.

      So what was the worst that could happen right here in broad daylight?