Emily had to put out fires of her own, for her family’s sake.
She forgot about the man as she answered her father’s call and received her car keys.
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Emily… Tyler mused, his mind racing wildly as his heart pounded against his chest.
He had not thought of her for years and had been shocked to see her standing at the hotel entrance, staring directly at him.
He pressed his hands together tightly as he fought down every alarm bell going off in his head.
He had been so focused on the Kramers and those who were close to them that the Jergens had not once popped into his head.
Of the five leading families in Ashrone, the Kramers were number one, the Belarnts were a distant second, then came the Jergens, the Perrisels, and the Volteras.
The Kramers owned over ninety percent of all
