Her Hawaiian Homecoming (Mills & Boon Superromance) by Cara Lockwood Read Free Book Online Page A

this fact. “Dallas is mostly right.”
    “Mostly right?” Allie looked as if she was going to explode. Her dark eyes sparked like steel striking flint. “How much difference are we talking about?”
    “Well, realistically...” Jennifer hesitated, biting her lower lip.
    “Spit it out.”
    “The real value is the land and the Kona coffee on it. If you took that away, as well as the seaside views... You’ve got a pretty small house and a coffee-processing facility, but only a very small share of the actual Kona crop, so it wouldn’t be a workable plantation. You’d have to sell it strictly as a residence, and with the lava zone issue and no plumbing...about half as much as we talked about on the phone.”
    Allie couldn’t hide her disappointment, and Dallas saw it clearly on her face. Too greedy, Dallas thought. That was the problem with Allie and every other gorgeous woman he’d ever met. Too damn greedy. Maybe she and Jennifer had more in common than he thought.
    “And you can’t even get that,” Dallas said. “According to the will, Allie can’t even sell her half without getting permission from Aunt Kaimana first.”
    “What? I don’t remember that in the will,” Allie protested.
    “Page three, section E,” Dallas said, pulling the will from his back pocket. He’d unrolled a photocopy of the will and began to read it aloud.
    Jennifer and Allie listened with interest.
    “‘If the land is to be divided and then sold, it is the will of Misuko Osaka that Kaimana Mahi’ai oversee the division and issue written approval of the final sale before official transfer can be made to both parties. No sale will take place unless approved by Ms. Mahi’ai.’”
    “Wait—Kai’s aunt? What does Kai’s aunt have to do with my grandma’s estate?” Confusion flickered across Allie’s face.
    Jennifer’s eyes narrowed. “You didn’t tell me this was a clause in the will.” She turned to Allie, her brow wrinkled in frustration.
    “I didn’t know,” Allie confessed, having clearly missed that part. She took the will from Dallas’s hands and scoured the wording.
    Jennifer sighed, annoyed. “Well, this is a waste of my time, then.” Her cheery manner disappeared, and she turned away from Allie.
    “Wait—where are you going?”
    “Call me after you talk to Kaimana,” Jennifer said, slipping on her designer sunglasses as she walked back to her BMW. “That is, if she’ll talk to you.”
    “Wait!” Allie called.
    “Don’t bother.” Dallas narrowed his eyes as they both watched Jennifer roar back out of the driveway.
    “The lawyer didn’t read that clause over the phone,” Allie said.
    “Nope, he didn’t.” Dallas grinned.
    “But you knew it was there all along.” Allie turned on Dallas, her eyes flashing. He didn’t know how she did it, but she managed to look diabolically sexy when she was mad. Dallas had to admit, maybe he didn’t mind pushing her buttons. “You couldn’t have mentioned it to me before?”
    “Me?” A harsh laugh escaped Dallas. “If you were the one who wanted to strip the land and sell it to no-good resort developers for a quick buck, then you should’ve read the fine print. You had a copy of the will.”
    “Yeah, but...that’s not fair.” Allie balled up the photocopy of the will in her hands.
    “Oh, really? What else do you call looting your grandmother’s property?”
    “I’m not looting!” Allie looked mad enough to spit.
    “That’s right. Not on my watch you’re not,” Dallas warned, taking another step closer. “You’ll have to go through me first.”
    “You aren’t even family.” Allie’s face turned beet red as anger strangled her words. “What gives you the right...”
    “Misu gave me the right. I’m part of this, too, whether you like it or not. She split the land between us for a reason. You haven’t been acting like family! You don’t know the first thing about your grandmother. You haven’t even visited, not once in the five