Fortune's Greatest Risk

“Yes?” Ellie asked, her tone nothing if not encouraging.

Hailey gathered her courage to her and forced herself to push on. Friendly though she was, this wasn’t easy for her.

“I thought that you might know what his brother’s status is.”

“I’m sure I do,” Ellie agreed. “Which brother is it?”

Idiot. Her husband’s got more than one brother.

“Dillon. The contractor who renovated this spa,” she qualified, making it sound as if it was the all-important connection rather than her own reaction to the man.

“Well, Dillon’s unattached,” Ellie told her. “But...” Her voice trailed off, sounding uncertain.

Although distant alarms went off in Hailey’s head, for some reason the mayor’s words only aroused Hailey’s curiosity even more. “But what?”

“To be honest,” Ellie confessed, “I don’t know if Dillon’s really in the market for anyone.”

That was an odd way to put it, Hailey thought. “Do you mean at the moment, or ever?”

Ellie glanced toward her brother-in-law and then sighed. That in itself wound up raising far more questions than it could possibly answer.

“I really don’t think I should be the one to answer that, Hailey,” the mayor admitted. “I’m afraid that you’re going to have to ask Dillon that question.” And then Ellie squeezed her hand. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m afraid that I’m required to mingle with the good citizens of Rambling Rose or they won’t feel as if they’ve gotten their full nickel’s worth.”

Hailey laughed as she stepped back, clearing a path for the mayor. “I had no idea you were charging admission to this.”

Ellie smiled in response. “If I did, it would be a great deal more than just a nickel,” she told Hailey, winking at her.

Left alone, Hailey caught herself intrigued by and thinking about what Ellie had just told her.

Was what the mayor said true? Was there some reason that Dillon Fortune had withdrawn from the dating field? But if that was the case, why had he kept checking his phone so often the other day when she’d been trying to give him a tour of the place? A man who wasn’t interested in interacting with potential dating candidates didn’t “half” dabble in the field. He was either in or he was out.

And if he was “in,” well then, the game was on, wasn’t it? And that in turn meant that she was going to have to buckle down and give this her all.

Hailey made up her mind.

She was well aware that she might regret this path she was contemplating taking, but she still wanted to see where it would lead her.

It was settled.

She was definitely in.

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