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PIPER
My stomach dropped out of my body as we both came to our feet. “What are you talking about?”
Chase paled and straightened. “You do know, don’t you?”
Every nerve in my body went numb at the same time. It couldn’t be true. It just couldn’t. No, Chase must be wrong.
“That’s not possible.”
He frowned. “I swore that you already knew.”
“No. Why would you say something like that? The winery is my entire life. There is no way in a million years that my dad would sell to your family again. Never, ever, ever.”
“Piper, I’m sorry.”
I scrambled away from him. I couldn’t deal with this right now. It wasn’t true. It absolutely wasn’t true. And my dad would confirm it. That was the only scenario that I would consider. Chase had wrong information. That was it.
I scoured the room for my d
