Chapter Fifty Eight

Chapter 58.

‘Oh, Nate n! Why didn’t you bring one of these home for me? If I’d

known…’

But she knew why. Ship the stuff in and ship it out again before you

have to pay for it. That had been his strategy. It had worked for frogs.

This was different.

But it would have to be her long-term, comeback strategy. Her future.

And Toby’s. Right now she needed hard cash, and quickly, or she was going

to have to marry Dan to save her family and friends from disaster and what

had once been an impossible dream, locked in the deepest recesses of her

heart where she never dared go, would become the darkest of nightmares.

Not before she’d examined every other option, she swore. There had to

be another way.

She picked up a legal pad, drew a line down the centre, and at the top of

one side she wrote ‘Assets’, and on the other side, ‘Liabilities’.

What assets did she have? Her jewellery, mostly. Maybe some of those

designer evening gowns could be sold through a dress agency. They had

some good pieces of