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Ever & Always Look Inside – Four Money

“I didn’t give a shit about my father’s money when he was alive, why would I want it now?” Trent sliced his hands through the air, wishing he could cut off the pain his father could cause him, even from the grave. “What do I have to do, promise I’ll be normal and leave my wicked ways behind me?”

“Kind of.” Ford nodded as he peeked over Cooper’s shoulder. “You’d have to be married or over twenty-five to inherit what he’s set aside for you.”

“So that bastard thought poly was some kind of phase I’d grow out of? Fuck him!” Trent wasn’t a violent sort of guy, but he wished he could chuck his glass across the room and relish it shattering. He didn’t need distractions. All he had to do was put his head down, work hard, and focus on his goals to achieve them. “Why are we wasting our breath talking about this when I could be downstairs on the casino floor making more money to start my business myself?”

It just might take a while, time his competitors could use to reverse engineer his technology if they caught even a hint of what he’d dreamed up. Several players in the industry were close on his heels, with enormous budgets and full research and development teams. Worry that they would catch up or pass him ate at him every day.

“Why couldn’t he have held on another three damn months? I’ll be twenty-five in June.”

“How much money do you need to fund your patents and the start-up costs for your solar and battery technology?” Cooper asked.

“Too much.” Trent squeezed the bridge of his nose. “I might be too late to market by the time I have it.”

“Whoa, is that the business Lorenzo was referring to earlier?” Brady asked. “That could be a big fucking deal.”

Owen and Lorenzo were staring at him with twin worried gazes. They knew how much this meant to him and how deeply his family could fuck him up on a personal level, and now on a professional one, too.

“It will be.” Trent crossed his arms. “When I do it. On my own. Without my father’s dirty money and sacrificing things I can’t live without. I’m not going to change who I am. Not even for this.”

“Hold on.” Holly put her feet on the floor and leaned forward. “No one’s saying you have to actually change. Just do what it takes to meet the trust’s qualifications.”

Trent scoffed. “Oh yeah, where am I going to find some random woman to marry me tonight? Are you volunteering?”

Though he’d said it to prove a point, he couldn’t deny that part of him didn’t hate that idea as much as he should.
Holly blinked a few times in rapid succession then sat back, her mouth snapping shut. Yeah, that’s what he’d thought.

Everyone else surrounding them was so quiet he could sense the faint thump of the bass through the soundproofed walls.

“Guys, that’s not the worst idea I’ve ever heard.” Owen spread his arms. “Maybe you should think about it.”

“Exactly how much money are we talking about here?” Holly asked.

Cooper squinted, then said, “After taxes and legal fees, I’m guessing seventy, give or take.”

“Seventy thousand dollars?” Holly’s eyes went wide.

“Trent, you could do a lot with that. It would be a huge head start on your dreams.”

She was sweet, and entirely too naïve for the sort of bullshit their well-meaning friends were trying to entangle her in.

Josh sidled up next to Ford and glanced between Holly and the screen twice, as if to make certain of what he’d read. Then he whistled. “Not thousands, Holly. Millions.”

The drink nearly slipped from her fingers, but Andi was there to catch it and set it on the table beside the couch.

Holly’s pretty eyes practically popped out of her head. “Millions? Of dollars?”

Trent cursed. He’d resisted temptation once in his life already. Could he do it again, now that he knew the stakes? What if he didn’t do this and someone beat him to finalizing the revolutionary solar technology he was on the cusp of perfecting?

All he had to do was get hitched for ninety days, and he’d have a shot to realize his dreams. Besides, assuming she would even go for it, he’d get to spend more time with Holly while he took the next step toward his goal. Maybe it was the whiskey talking, or the eager expressions on his friends’ faces, but he was finding it hard to remember why this was a terrible plan.

Thinking out loud, he said to Holly, “I’d make it worth your while too if we did this.”

Andi clapped and Kari grinned. Lorenzo slapped Owen on the back and they both shot him approving glances. Of course they did. Because if he did this stupid, reckless thing, that meant Holly would be living with them for three months too. And there was only one way that was going to end up. The chemistry had been there earlier. It would be again.

She had no idea what she was getting herself into.

“Hold on. You’re saying that you’d pay me to marry you?” Holly snatched her drink up again and drained it dry. She stood, and he wondered if she was about to smack him, except she paused halfway across the plush carpet between them. Her eyes shifted out the window, as if she was thinking of something far away… “How much?”

“What?” He whirled around to gawk like she had grown an extra head. She couldn’t be considering such a ridiculous charade. Could she?

“How. Much?”

“What would you want to do it?” Trent asked. “It’s just for ninety days or so until I turn twenty-five. Then we could get it annulled, right?”

He aimed that last question at the quartet of lawyers in the room.

Ford was skimming the documents over Cooper’s shoulder and they both nodded. “Yes. It just says you need to be married or over the age of twenty-five to claim the funds and keep them from rolling into the general estate. There’s no stipulation on how long you have to have been hitched or who you need to be with. I guess your dad figured if you’d settled down…”

“Well, he thought wrong.” Trent tried not to yell at them. They weren’t the ones discriminating against him. “So, Holly, what would it take?”

He knew he was being kind of an asshole, but he didn’t think she’d consider it for any amount of money and it pissed him off that he was even entertaining the thought, never mind kind of starting to like it.

So it shocked him when she fired right back at him. “Four hundred thirty-seven thousand, two hundred eighty-one dollars, and seventeen cents.”

Trent threw back his head and laughed.

Holly didn’t.

“Wait, that wasn’t a joke?”

“Do I look like I’m kidding?” Her cheeks reddened, and he realized he’d almost blown things before they’d really started getting serious.

“No, it’s just that’s oddly specific.” Trent cocked his head. “What do you need it for?”

“Is the deal contingent on what I’m going to do with the money?” She propped her hands on her hips. He felt his chances with both her and his dad’s stupid will slipping away.

“Not at all.” He held his hands up, palms out. "Let's do it."

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