you should be.”
His face tensed, and she knew she’d gone too far.
“We don’t fit into each other’s lives anymore.”
He said it as if that ended the matter. The friend was another secret Luke didn’t intend to share. If they were in the office, she wouldn’t have pushed this far. But they weren’t in the office.
“Would he like this place?”
Luke shrugged. “He wouldn’t appreciate the potential.”
For a moment she could only stare at him. “What do you mean?”
His gesture took in the strange shapes of the drowned forest. “This. Hasn’t it occurred to you what a commercial draw this could be? With the right kind of promotion, people would pay to visit this.”
Disappointment was an acrid taste in Chloe’s mouth. A commercial draw—that was all he could see. Maybe she’d been wrong about the depths she thought he hid. Maybe he was nothing more than the surface persona—the success-driven businessman who didn’t care about anything but profit.
The thought shouldn’t hurt her heart as much as it did.
“Look out!”
Luke took a quick step back, holding the kitchen door for Miranda the next morning as she darted through with a steaming pot of coffee. She flashed him a smile.
“Go on back. Chloe’s in there.”
He wasn’t actually looking for Chloe, but there didn’t seem any point in trying to tell Miranda that. He’d come down this morning with the single aim of talking to Clayton Caldwell about Angel Isle.
He helped himself to coffee from the sideboard while he scanned the dining room. The large oval table where they’d sat for dinner the first night was pressed into service as a breakfast buffet. Smaller tables for guests clustered around it and overflowed into the hall and onto the porch.
Only a few guests had come down this early. Chloe’s father was usually one of the earliest people down, but the chair where he always sat was empty.
Luke frowned. After their return from Angel Isle, he’d spent the rest of the day learning everything on the public record about Angel Isle. Now he was keyed up and ready to roll, but his instincts told him to proceed cautiously.
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