Fake Marriage (Contemporary Romance Box Set) - Page 257

In the house, I felt guilty for violating my father’s privacy as I searched for my phone first in his office and then in his room without any luck. I wondered if he knew I’d come to look for it. I remembered how he’d taken my cell phone when I was in middle school as a punishment, and I’d found it and taken it back. Crap, was I still being a dumb kid like Tucker said?

I was about to give up when there was a knock on the door. For a moment, I hoped it was Mo, but I quickly pushed that away. I really needed to get better control of my heart.

I went to the door, opening it to find Jeanette, Mo’s and my father’s attorney, standing in her professional suit and carrying a briefcase.

“I was hoping to find you

here,” she said.

“Me? Not my father?” I asked, opening the door to let her in.

“Yes, you. Is your father around, or is he out?”

“He’s out. I can probably have someone find him.” My father always had someone working at the barn.

“No. I just need to talk to you.”

“Do you want coffee or something? I can make a pot,” I asked, feeling uneasy about this visit.

“No. I’m fine, thank you. Is there a place we can sit? Maybe a dining table? I have some paperwork for you.”

Paperwork? Why did that sound ominous? “Sure. In here.” I led her to the formal dining room that we used to only use during holidays but hadn’t used it since my mother died.

Jeannette sat at the table, and I took a seat across from her. “Is something wrong?”

She studied me. “I don’t know. You’ll have to tell me.” She slid a paper to me. “Your father asked me to draw these up.”

I looked at the official-looking legal document. It took me a moment to realize it was a divorce paper.

My gaze snapped up to hers. “Can he do that?”

“Your father can pay me to draw up whatever legal papers he wants. However, I can’t make people sign them. That’s up to you and Mo.”

I looked down at the document for the signatures. “Mo hasn’t signed.” Then again, my father probably wanted this to come from me.

“No, he didn’t. He will if you want him to.”

I looked at her. “You’ve talked to him?”

“I did. Last night when I brought the paper to him.”

I sat for the moment, wondering what it meant that Mo didn’t sign them when he had the chance. “Can you explain to me what’s going on?”

She sat back like she couldn’t understand why I was confused.

“I mean, I know what this is, just…how did we get here?”

“Your father seems to think this marriage should end. He asked me to draw this up and get Mo to sign it. He seemed to think Mo would as a penance or payback or something.”

“But Mo didn’t.” For a moment, I had hope that it meant he loved me. But then I remembered that he had to pay back the money if the marriage didn’t work out. Maybe he didn’t sign as a way to try and force me to finish the arrangement. That hurt, and yet, I knew I owed it to him to stay, if only for that. He’d done so much for us, and my father was a jerk for causing Mo financial troubles.

“No. But he said he would if you wanted him to. I can’t go into details, but it would complicate things for him.”

“You mean he’d have to pay back the money?” I asked.

“You know about that?”

I nodded. “Not from him, but yes.” I scanned the paper, but I didn’t read the words. I was trying to figure out what Mo would want. I looked at Jeannette. “How did he seem when you saw him? Was he relieved to have me gone?”

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