“You get used to it,” Phil assured him. He wouldn’t admit it, but Lina knew Matt was starting to grow on him. Phil had stopped complaining that Matt was at the house too much, and if he needed another pair of strong arms for something, Phil would ask for Matt’s help if he saw him before Logan.

Megan was next, looking beautiful and older than her nineteen years as she took her place beside Katie.

“Did Alice invite Julian?” Phil asked.

Lina followed his gaze to see Julian sitting beside Shiloh, who miraculously was almost one hundred percent recovered from her injuries. As promised, Julian had stepped up and treated Shiloh like a precious flower during her recovery, but Lina was only cautiously optimistic that the change was permanent. “She’s giving him another chance,” Lina said.

“We’re not.”

“I know. Shh, here they come,” Lina said as Logan, looking more like a man than a boy in a black tuxedo, began to walk Alice down the aisle. “She’s beautiful,” Lina whispered as they came to their feet. In a cocktail-length white wedding gown, her hair swept up in a chignon bun, Alice Rayburn shined like a bride.

“She is,” Phil agreed.

As Lina’s eyes focused on her parents standing before a minister, she thought of her own marriage and the promises she and Phil made to each other all those years ago. Phil broke one of those promises, testing the very strength of the foundation binding their family together—a foundation conceived, built and nurtured by years of shared experiences. And as painful as the past year had been, their foundation was now stronger, not because of the infidelity, but because when they believed their foundation was crumbling, the thousands of memories it was built upon flashed before their eyes, reminding them of what they knew when they saw each other across that dance floor twenty-five years earlier—they belonged together.

“Where are you?” Phil’s voice in Lina’s ear pulled her from her reflections.

“With you,” she answered as she took his hand. “Always with you.”

Also by Laura Branchflower

Also by Laura Branchflower

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