A Lake Norman Vacation Property and Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
She turned the mug a quarter turn, then turned it back.
“That’s a real offer,” she said.
“It sure is.”
“And he made it sound like a kindness.”
“Everything Spencer does sounds like a kindness.”
Helen tapped her fingernail against the mug once.
“Honey, if he’s got fifty thousand dollars to hand out, why’d he ask me for a cigarette outside the courthouse last month?
I don’t even smoke.”
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