Love Like This

Chapter 112

She sat up glaring at him warily. "How could you possibly help me?"

"By setting up an appointment with Parker Mills a day early before your uncle and mother meet with him. If you have a sweeter deal for him, then I suggest you make a ploy for him now. They owe him a great deal of money."

She wanted to meet, but she wasn't sure what or how she could sweeten the deal. "How much is owed?"

"A quarter of a million."

She buried her head in her hands.

"Talk with your mother's lawyer. Maybe he could help you out, Nicole." He placed his card on her lap. "Call me to confirm or let my secretary, Kristen know."

After he was gone, she went to the pay phone and called Armando Bellini. To her good luck, he was on his way to Detroit and could meet her in Southfield at the St. Royal Hotel tomorrow. She called Cleo to see if she could stay at Nanna's side for her. Cleo eagerly agreed.

Armando looked in his early thirties and she was surprised to know he was younger than that at 27. "I'm the baby of the Bellini family in my generation. I was the youngest child my aunt raised because my mother died in a car accident. She mothered over ten children when I was younger. We don't consider ourselves cousins, or adopted siblings, or friends. We're a close knit family. My brother actually represented your mother's ex-husband in their divorce," he said matter of factly.