Lina's POV
I pressed my hands against Adrian's solid chest, my face flushed with indignation, eyes wide and glaring. "What exactly do you think you're doing?"
He'd traveled all the way from Ravenport to Silvertree just to tease me in the middle of the night?
Impossible man.
But as I stared up at him,I watched his expression shift. He forced himself to refocus, his voice dropping to that commanding tone I was beginning to recognize.
"Ward Hardware. What's your plan?"
I took a breath, trying to organize my scattered thoughts. "First, I need to get operational control back from Uncle Morgan. Then I'll look for investors. If I can't find any..." I paused, the weight of reality settling on my shoulders. "Then it wasn't meant to be."
But those investors could never be Stor
