“My, you are an optimistic sort,” I sneered at her meanly. I was still pissed. “Let’s just get this really straight. You have an opinion, that’s okay, but you say nothing to anyone but me. Got that?”
“Okay, I can live with that, but I’m not going to watch you tube your inheritance, your way of life and the only thing you have going for you by being stubborn as a mule, Mr. Andreson.” She was pretty stubborn herself, and I backed away from her laughing.
In a few minutes, she was laughing too. Seemed we both needed to lighten up and that was a good way to ease the prickly tension between us.
“I’m sorry if I overstepped my bounds, Rory,” she finally admitted. “I guess I get over zealous when I get in the middle of a battle. And that’s how I see your financial condition.”
“Enough sa
