James seemed to be reading my thoughts. “Maybe one day, we’ll forget about all of this,” he said quietly. “And everything will go back to normal, like it never happened.”

He didn’t have to explain any further—I knew exactly what he meant.

“Maybe.” I looked at my husband, at the face I had loved for almost half my life. “Happy birthday, sweetheart.”

About the Author

Margot Hunt is a USA Today best-selling author. Her full-length novels include BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, FOR BETTER AND WORSE and THE LAST AFFAIR. She has also written two novellas—BURIED DEEP and THE HOUSE ON THE WATER.

Margot wrote eight previous books as Whitney Gaskell and the Young Adult series GEEK HIGH under the pen name Piper Banks.

She lives in Stuart, Florida.