The Inheritance (Happy Endings Resort Book 1) by Jennifer Benson Page B

daggers at him.
    “I was simply offering to walk you back to Drew’s so you can tell him that we aren’t together and that . . .”
    “That I am not with anyone. I need to be alone and on my own for a while. If I’m going to make this place work I need to focus on this place.”
    “Wow! I love your fire. Want to go finish what we started? That fire in your eyes is really turning me on.” He moved closer to me.
    “No, I want you to have all of the papers together and ready to go at your office tomorrow so I can sign them.” I took a step away from him. “Right now, you are going to give me the keys to your cabin and I’m going to bed. You are going to go back to your apartment in town to your own bed.”
    “But we were both so cozy in my bed together.” He stepped in front of me.
    “Well, that time has passed. Tomorrow I want the keys to Betty’s house and I would appreciate it if you had the phone number of a contractor that I could speak to about redoing the whole house.” I continued to walk away from him.
    “Anything else Ms. London?” he caught up to my side and smirked at me.
    “What happened between us will never happen again, so please don’t hit on me.” I elbowed him in the ribs.
    “Yeah, Drew wouldn’t like it.” He laughed.
    “I wouldn’t like it.”
    “Are you saying you are not going to see where things might go with Drew?” We kept in step with each other.
    “I’m saying that I don’t want you hitting on me. You are now not only the estate’s attorney, but my business attorney. It is unprofessional of you to be hitting on your clients. My grandmother may have been a whore, hell my mother was probably a whore. I, however, am not.” I stopped and turned to face him. “If you’d like to be friendly as in friends only, then fine, but anything other than friendship is not going to happen between us.”
    “You didn’t answer me about Drew.”
    “No, I didn’t, did I?” I turned and continued toward the cabin.
     
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    “Is there anything inside that you need before I close the door and lock it?” I held out my hand to him.
    “What?”
    “Keys, please.” I looked him right in the eye.
    “I have a set at my office and my apartment.”
    “Stop smirking. For tonight, you are going to be the good guy.” He raised his eyebrows at me as he pulled his keys from his pants pocket and handed them to me.
    “Sometimes being the good guy sucks.” He brushed his hand over mine.
    “Yeah, but tonight isn’t that night.” I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. “Thank you for everything.” I turned to the door of the cabin. “Good night, Jason. I’ll see you tomorrow morning.” I waved and closed the door at his smilingly astonished face. I stood with my back against the door as I heard him say, “What the fuck just happened? I lost the girl, lost my cabin for the night, and Drew isn’t even getting laid. Holy shit, this girl knows what she is doing.” I peeked out the window. “She’ll do just fine here, Betty, no worries.” He laughed, shook his head as he slide into the driver’s seat of his car and pulled away.

Epilogue
     
    It had been only a few weeks and I was feeling right at home here at Happy Endings Resort. Jason came back to the cabin the morning after I had left Drew’s trailer. I signed all of the papers and then Jason walked me around the resort introducing me to all of the office staff and permanent residents. What a cast of characters this place had. I was looking forward to getting to know each and every one of them.
    Today’s re-grand opening event was a huge success. Some of the local business came to sell their wares. We had food vendors, beer and wine tasting, tattoo artists, jewelry makers, psychic readings, face painting, live music, etc. You name it, we had it. If it goes on in town, we had it here. Even the local drive-in offered to show a free movie for us. We had it all and everyone had a great time.
    Now I was sitting here on my