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Off the Chart
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2018
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‘The house, the land, my car. All of it.’
‘Three million for that heap of rust you call a car?’
‘I’m serious. The house, land, all of it. Would you?’
She held his eyes.
‘It’s not mine to sell.’
‘But let’s say it were. You could take the three mil, go someplace else, invest some of the money in mutual funds, live off the interest. Never have to work again, do whatever you wanted.’
‘Mutual funds?’ She reached out and pressed her palm against his forehead. ‘You been outside all day without a hat?’
‘Answer the question,’ he said, startled by the impatience in his own voice.
She took her hand from his forehead. Her smile drifted away.
‘Would I swap all this for a truckload of cash?’ she said. ‘Not in a million years, Thorn. Not in three million.’
Thorn let go of the air that had been building in his lungs.
‘Yeah, that’s what I thought.’
‘Was that some kind of test, Thorn?’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Because I thought we were a little past the testing phase.’
‘We are,’ he said. ‘It’s just that sometimes, your job, all the shit you put up with every day, I wonder if you wouldn’t be happier retired.’
‘You’d sell all this so I could retire?’
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