The Same Wedding Dress, Two Different Brides novel · Chapter 29 of 32

Chapter 29: The Deed

I put my hand flat over the paper before he could sign it.

"No," I said.

The loan officer looked from one of us to the other and slowly took a mint.

"Furlong," Aidan said.

"That's your father's building. That's your whole life. If we miss a payment, the bank takes your shop."

"You won't miss a payment."

"You don't know that."

"I've watched you through a window for three years," he said. "You've never missed a hem. You've never missed a deadline. You sewed a wedding dress to the minute on doctor's orders, five months pregnant, sitting down." He tapped the pen on the back of my hand. "This isn't a present. It's a bet. I only bet on sure things."

"You bet I'd let his waist out."

"That was a sure thing too."

Gran leaned over from her chair.

"Lauren," she said. "Let the man sign. His mother came in my back door at nine o'clock at night. This family has a history of letting Kehoes help."

I looked at Shauna.

Shauna had both hands pressed over her mouth.

I lifted my hand off the paper.

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