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    But he really didn’t want to invest because that was the only reason she’d reached out to him in more than seven years.
    So he was saying fuck that.
    If all she wanted from him was his name now that he was an Olympic Silver medalist, and his money now that he was endorsing razors and energy drinks, then fuck that.
    Fuck her.
    And since he paid Steve to help him avoid doing things he didn’t want to do— like showing up for court dates for bullshit charges because an ex-girlfriend threw a brick through a current girlfriend’s car window, and paying off an ex-girlfriend who claimed to have a sex tape—he’d had Steve handling her.
    Was he doing it to piss her off?
    Of course he was.
    And he knew she knew it.
    Was he doing it knowing that eventually she would come to him personally?
    Abso-fucking-lutely he was.
    And he knew she knew that too.
    But she’d held off longer than he’d expected. It was October. Hailey and the town council had first contacted him via letter in mid-May. He knew that she’d invited a number of Sapphire Falls alums back home for the annual festival and to hear about the new venture she was calling Sapphire Hills. His mom had tried to talk him into coming home for the whole thing.
    But he wasn’t going to go just because Hailey Conner snapped her fingers. That might work on the other schmucks she had on her list, but not him.
    He’d also known that she’d known he wouldn’t show up.
    Now she was here.
    “No, I don’t need Steve,” Ty said. “Send her in.”
    Bryan lifted an eyebrow. He was from Sapphire Falls too and knew all about Hailey Conner. He also knew that Ty had fucked her on graduation night and had been messed up ever since.
    Bryan was the only one who knew that.
    “You sure about this?”
    “What do you think’s going to happen?” Ty asked. He actually really wanted to know.
    “I think she’s going to walk in here, grab you by the nuts—figuratively if not literally—and get you to do whatever she wants you to do.”
    Yeah, that’s what Ty was a little afraid of too.
    The stupid thing was that he wasn’t that guy. He called the shots with the other women he dated. He was a demanding guy when it came to, well, everything. He was dominating in his sport, he was aggressive in business and he was in charge with women. He wasn’t quite into whips and leather, but he loved having a woman submit to him. In everything. But especially the bedroom.
    Bryan knew that. Shared a lot of Ty’s tastes and then some, actually.
    And the least submissive woman either of them knew was Hailey.
    Sure, at the river that night she’d responded to his demanding nature. But it had been a long time since then. Ty had explored his sexual tastes and his dominant side had developed over the years.
    No way would Hailey Conner go for what he liked now.
    But damn , the idea of that was fodder for some major fantasies.
    The fucking pathetic truth was that of all the women, of all the opponents, all the business executives he’d come up against in the past seven years, he’d never worried about keeping the upper hand. He was smart and he knew what he wanted and he was willing to work his ass off to get it.
    But he was very afraid Hailey could bring him down.
    “You ready?”
    Bryan’s question pulled Ty from his ponderings.
    “Uh, no,” he said honestly. “But I knew fucking around with her request was going to bring her out here eventually.”
    “Okay, put your cup on brother, I’m sending her in.”
    Ty had about three minutes to get his shit together before Hailey came sweeping through the door. He purposefully had his back to her, pretending to be leaning over his desk, studying the photos. But he knew the moment she stepped over the threshold.
    All of his senses seemed heightened and he swore he could smell the sweet scent of coconut across the thirty feet that separated him from his office door.
    “I can’t believe you’ve been making me talk to your lawyer.”
    Her cool,