Chasing Memories: The Forevermore Series, Book 2
laugh now. A loud, belly-deep hoot. Lord, it felt good to release some of the tension inside.
    “Lucas? Are you okay?” Amanda glanced over at him, an inquiring expression on her face.
    His breaths came in short sharp gasps and he doubled over, clutched his stomach and roared. Now that he’d started to laugh, he couldn’t stop. Grams’s image flashed into his mind, her short, stalky frame rooted in front of his younger self. She’d craned her neck and glared up at him, pointing and waving a finger in his face until she’d finished her tirade.
    Rihanna, with her smoking-hot body and sexy purr had been a decision he’d made with that part of his anatomy you didn’t use to think. Now he was paying the price for his indiscretion. Finding a new interior designer meant starting over from scratch and would delay the scheduled renovations to the property and postpone the grand reopening planned for early next year.
    “Lucas? Are you still there?” Brett asked.
    He sobered. “Yes. We’ll need to find someone new immediately.”
    “I’ll take care of it right away.”
    “Thank you.” Lucas cut the connection and returned his attention to Amanda. “Did you have something you’d like to discuss with me?”
    “I wondered if you’d learned anything more about the night of Grams’s accident.”
    Amanda had been visiting friends in Australia for the last two weeks and didn’t know what had happened. There’d been little information to share when he’d finally gotten hold of her and no time to fill her in after she’d arrived this morning. “No. The woman who was in the car with Grams is having trouble remembering. Her doctor says she has retrograde amnesia.”
    “What the heck is retrograde amnesia? She doesn’t remember who she is?”
    Lucas shook his head. “She remembers who she is, and everything about her life up until a few weeks before the accident.”
    Amanda arched up a brow. “So she can’t tell us why she was traveling with Grams the night of the accident, or how Grams suffered the internal injuries she died from?”
    Internal injuries . Three cracked ribs, a punctured lung and a ruptured spleen. His hands clenched into tight fists. He sucked in a deep breath, blew it out, and made a concerted effort to relax. “Correct.”
    “It seems a little too convenient if you ask me.”
    He agreed with Amanda’s assessment. It seemed more likely the woman was hiding something. But what? Better yet, why?
    “So, who is this woman?”
    “Her name is India Leone.”
    Amanda gasped. “Are you sure?”
    “Positive. Why?”
    “Grams hired India Leone to renovate the Young building.”
    Evelyn mentioned hiring an interior designer a few months ago. She’d wanted to update the old brownstone she’d converted to house her real estate agency. Nothing had been done since she’d purchased the property twenty-five years ago.
    “…that evening.”
    Lucas blinked. “Huh?”
    Amanda crossed her arms over her chest and rolled her eyes. “Are you even listening to me, or is your mind still on business?”
    “No. I’m listening. Go ahead.”
    “What I don’t understand is why India would have been with Grams.”
    He must have missed something else. What she’d said didn’t make sense. “Why? As an employee India would—”
    Amanda shook her head. “That’s my point. India wasn’t her employee.”
    Lucas blew out a breath. It had already been a hell of a day and he didn’t have the energy for this conversation. “But you told me Grams hired India.”
    “I know. I know, but she fired her two days before the accident occurred.”

Chapter Three
    India grabbed the remote control from the coffee table in the living room at her parents’ home in Leone Estates, the Sonoma, California. The vineyard had been in her father’s family for three generations. With an unsteady hand, she clicked off the television. She couldn’t bear listening to yet another reporter speculate on what happened the night of her

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