A Guest Claimed Her Fiancé Owned The Hotel—So I Made One Call

jail?” he asked one evening while we folded laundry.

“I don’t know,” I told him, because I wouldn’t lie to make him feel better. “But there will be consequences.”

He nodded slowly, then asked, “Did he really want to take the house?”

“Yes,” I said, and watched him swallow.

Liam looked around the living room—the same one where Grandma had watched game shows continue reading …