Free Romance: Gibson's Legacy ( New Adult Contemporary Erotic Romance) (Last Score Book 1) by K.L. Shandwick Page B
Authors: K.L. Shandwick
personal friend of my grandparents, and one of my grandfather’s closest, Mr. Sherman told me the title deeds were held in his name as trustee, so the transfer would be simple. We both signed in the presence of two notaries that Mr. Sherman had lined up as witnesses, and he faxed it back to his office for them to handle.
“Your grandfather knew he was dying and his one regret in life was not living long enough to get to know you. The apartment paperwork will be completed in due course, but there is no reason why you can’t have the keys now, Chloe. You are free to do whatever you wish with it. If you intend to sell you’ll have to wait for the transfer of the title deeds to be recorded. Under the terms of the trust I am permitted to transfer one tenth of the trust today and the rest will be freed to you in seven to ten working days after signing. As you have signed all the necessary paperwork and provided me with your bank account details, my office will transfer $80,000 to your account this afternoon. As previously discussed the $800,000 is your net worth after taxes.”
When he handed me the keys to my apartment, I wrapped my fingers around them and all my pent up emotions almost choked me. Not because this was a connection to my dead grandfather, but because I had just been handed a life line. Working a swallow hard, I placed the keys safely into my pocket.
A plan to escape had been forming in my mind ever since I’d been given the news and I knew I had to leave Kace and claim my life back. I was frightened about how to do that, but no matter how scary that felt to me or how lacking in confidence I felt, I knew that my life depended on it.
CHAPTER 8 – COWARD
Chloe
After I met with Mr. Sherman, I went to see my parents. Finally telling them what had been happening to me. I was feeling embarrassed and ashamed about telling them, worried as well, because I thought my dad would go ballistic and I just wanted to get away.
I hadn’t seen them face to face for a couple of weeks and both of my parents were devastated when they saw my bruised face. My heart pounded in my chest and ached because I knew I was hurting them when I told them about Kace and even more when they realized it wasn’t a one-off event.
Tears streamed down my mom’s face as I told them the only way forward, would be to get as far away from him as possible, but my dad was furious and wanted me to stay with them and to go to the police.
That made me panic as well because the thought of going through something like a trial on top of everything I had already faced felt like too much to deal with.
Eventually, once we had finished talking and my dad saw the state I was in dad very reluctantly came around to my way of thinking. I could simply disappear and live my life in safety fourteen hundred miles away. Kace would have no idea about the apartment or the money, so would never suspect where I had gone.
I could have gone to stay at a hotel and not gone back at all, maybe I just wasn’t thinking straight or maybe I just knew how Kace was always one step ahead and would find me before I could get away.
One thing I knew was that if I was going to leave, it had to be impulsively or I would talk myself out of it. My mom nearly fainted when I made the decision to leave the next day. I had somewhere to live and enough money to do that the rest I’d figure out as I went along.
So I went home for the last night and as frightened as I was I knew it would give me closure. I could see my parents were frightened for me but I’d lived with it for the past year another night of survival I could manage.
Flight SB 11 was booked by my dad’s secretary to cover my tracks by the time I left my parents and I was flying to New York the following day, but meanwhile I had to try to contain my nerves and disguise my apprehension from Kace.
Initially, I was thinking of just walking away, leaving everything, and just closing the door, but he didn’t deserve to
“Your grandfather knew he was dying and his one regret in life was not living long enough to get to know you. The apartment paperwork will be completed in due course, but there is no reason why you can’t have the keys now, Chloe. You are free to do whatever you wish with it. If you intend to sell you’ll have to wait for the transfer of the title deeds to be recorded. Under the terms of the trust I am permitted to transfer one tenth of the trust today and the rest will be freed to you in seven to ten working days after signing. As you have signed all the necessary paperwork and provided me with your bank account details, my office will transfer $80,000 to your account this afternoon. As previously discussed the $800,000 is your net worth after taxes.”
When he handed me the keys to my apartment, I wrapped my fingers around them and all my pent up emotions almost choked me. Not because this was a connection to my dead grandfather, but because I had just been handed a life line. Working a swallow hard, I placed the keys safely into my pocket.
A plan to escape had been forming in my mind ever since I’d been given the news and I knew I had to leave Kace and claim my life back. I was frightened about how to do that, but no matter how scary that felt to me or how lacking in confidence I felt, I knew that my life depended on it.
CHAPTER 8 – COWARD
Chloe
After I met with Mr. Sherman, I went to see my parents. Finally telling them what had been happening to me. I was feeling embarrassed and ashamed about telling them, worried as well, because I thought my dad would go ballistic and I just wanted to get away.
I hadn’t seen them face to face for a couple of weeks and both of my parents were devastated when they saw my bruised face. My heart pounded in my chest and ached because I knew I was hurting them when I told them about Kace and even more when they realized it wasn’t a one-off event.
Tears streamed down my mom’s face as I told them the only way forward, would be to get as far away from him as possible, but my dad was furious and wanted me to stay with them and to go to the police.
That made me panic as well because the thought of going through something like a trial on top of everything I had already faced felt like too much to deal with.
Eventually, once we had finished talking and my dad saw the state I was in dad very reluctantly came around to my way of thinking. I could simply disappear and live my life in safety fourteen hundred miles away. Kace would have no idea about the apartment or the money, so would never suspect where I had gone.
I could have gone to stay at a hotel and not gone back at all, maybe I just wasn’t thinking straight or maybe I just knew how Kace was always one step ahead and would find me before I could get away.
One thing I knew was that if I was going to leave, it had to be impulsively or I would talk myself out of it. My mom nearly fainted when I made the decision to leave the next day. I had somewhere to live and enough money to do that the rest I’d figure out as I went along.
So I went home for the last night and as frightened as I was I knew it would give me closure. I could see my parents were frightened for me but I’d lived with it for the past year another night of survival I could manage.
Flight SB 11 was booked by my dad’s secretary to cover my tracks by the time I left my parents and I was flying to New York the following day, but meanwhile I had to try to contain my nerves and disguise my apprehension from Kace.
Initially, I was thinking of just walking away, leaving everything, and just closing the door, but he didn’t deserve to
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