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Chapters (42)
  1. Cover Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Dear Friend
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. Twelve
  16. Thirteen
  17. Fourteen
  18. Fifteen
  19. Sixteen
  20. Seventeen
  21. Eighteen
  22. Nineteen
  23. Twenty
  24. Twenty-One
  25. Twenty-Two
  26. Twenty-Three
  27. Twenty-Four
  28. Twenty-Five
  29. Twenty-Six
  30. Twenty-Seven
  31. Twenty-Eight
  32. Twenty-Nine
  33. Thirty
  34. Thirty-One
  35. Thirty-Two
  36. Thirty-Three
  37. Acknowledgments
  38. Reading Group Guide
  39. An Excerpt from the Goodbye Bride
  40. Chapter 1
  41. Chapter 2
  42. About the Author

He looked her in the eye, pausing with the ring at the tip of her finger. “I love you, Kate Wright. There aren’t enough miles on the earth to separate you from it. I want you to be mine.” He squeezed her hand. “Fully mine.” He looked at her, looked into her.

“I want that too,” Kate said.

Lucas slid it in place. It was right where it belonged.

I’m right where I belong.

He placed a kiss on her mouth and wrapped his strong arms around her. She felt safe in his arms. Loved. Cherished.

“Forever this time?” he asked.

She snuggled into his chest, inhaling the familiar scent of him, all musky and woodsy. Man, I missed that. “Forever.” She smiled at the taste of the word on her tongue. No temporary arrangement this time. No twelve-month escape clause. She wanted in, and she never wanted out again.

She fingered the wedding band with her thumb. “My finger has felt naked since I took it off.”

Lucas lifted her hand and kissed it. “Too bad I didn’t accept the money for the interview. Could’ve bought you one heck of a diamond.”

Kate squeezed his hand. “I could put the other one back on.”

“Don’t you dare.” Lucas gave her a mock glare before pulling her back in his arms. “Did Pam tell you I called her?” He asked against her hair.

“You called her?” Kate couldn’t imagine why he’d do that.

“I told her I loved you and asked what I could do to save your career and—” Lucas swept Kate off her feet, as a wave rushed under their feet. He set her down up shore on the dry sand. “Didn’t think you’d want your shoes wet.”

Bo bumped Lucas’s thigh, a slobbery tennis ball in his jaws. Lucas tossed the ball a long ways down the beach.

“What did Pam say?” Kate slipped her hands into Lucas’s, savoring the security of his warm grip.

“She said women love a fairy-tale romance.”

Kate laughed, joy bubbling inside for the first time in a long time. “And you love being the knight in shining armor.”

His shoulders rose in a shrug and he gave her his crooked grin. “If the armored boot fits . . .”

Kate elbowed Lucas, then fell in step beside him as they walked toward home.

Home.

The word had a nice ring to it, and she felt a smile lift her lips. It wouldn’t matter where she was or what she was doing, home would always be wherever Lucas was.

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