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Robbie turned to her. “Where’s Jonah?”

Aiden and Bubba looked up from their card game (they had folded).

“I don’t know.”

“The mayor didn’t really say anything,” Aiden spoke up. “Just that we’re supposed to sit tight, but Jonah texted me that if we get through the night, we should be okay.”

“The water’s gone down outside.”

“Flooding up north can affect us, too,” Bubba said.

“I know, but my home’s safe. I built it high enough.”

“Nothing’s safe,” Aiden muttered to herself. “You can’t expect anything to be immune to the weather, even if it’s got money behind it.”

Robbie stiffened. “What?”

“Nothing.”

Bubba didn’t say a word.

“No.” Robbie pushed forward. “What are you talking about?”

“Nothing.”

“This have to do with your dad staying at my place?”

“No.”

“Or was that some poke at me because I’ve got money?”

“You’ve got more than some.” Aiden sat up. “You took a pretty penny with that settlement you won.” She explained to Dani, “Robbie came to town to help with Julia’s lawsuit.”

Erica’s settlement.

She turned back to Robbie, “And you got partner because of that. You’re one of the few attorneys in town. You make more than all three of us together right here.”

“Not Dani.”

“What?” Aiden and Bubba looked up.

“Dani’s got near a million in the bank.”

They all looked at her, and Dani asked, “How do you know that?” But she knew as soon as she asked. Kelley Lynn. “Never mind. I didn’t realize your secretary came back into the bank. I thought she left. I love how everyone is connected in small towns.” Her voice dripped with sarcasm.

“You have almost a million dollars?” Aiden cried out. “Where’d that come from? Does Jonah know?”

“Is it any of his business?” Dani countered, but he did know. And she didn’t remember him having the same response. “Do you not like people who have money?”

Aiden frowned. “What are you talking about?”

“Is it the money thing? Because you think they’ll turn into your father?”

“I can’t believe you just said that to me.” Aiden sucked in her breath, taken aback.

What she had in her bank account was her business and no one else’s, along with the reason of why it was there, too. “Yeah, well, my money is personal, Aiden. You don’t have a right to demand to know that or command me to tell Jonah.”

“I wasn’t—”

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