Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

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The answer was easy. "Nope. Not a chance."

Yuna frowned. "That won't do. When Hayden gets back, I'm making him marry you right away. Once you're married, no one can steal you."

Such a romantic. She didn't know there's a little thing called divorce.

But I just smiled and played along. "Fine by me. I've been waiting on that proposal forever."

"Really?" Yuna's face lit up. She whipped out her phone and sent a voice message to Hayden, her excitement almost contagious. "Hayden, Keira's just waiting for you to propose! Hurry up and come back already!" I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculously adorable she was.

But after hitting send, Yuna sighed. "Why isn't he answering? What if something happened to him?"

Her words made my heart do this weird little flip, but I couldn't let her see that. I forced a grin and shrugged. "Maybe he got swept off his feet by some gorgeous lady along the way."

look. "Not a chance. Hayden's had like, a million admirers, and he's never

but once she was settled in with the

did? Tried calling Hayden.

in my chest was growing, but I knew rushing off to search for Hayden wasn't exactly realistic

there, I pulled out the files on my parents' car accident, the ones I'd

Brake failure.

mechanical issue? Or

me. How had this gone unquestioned? Matthew had handled everything after the

him directly, but Matthew had made it clear I should drop it. Told me

know something? Was he

thought sent a cold chill down

was still zoning out, staring at the accident report, when there was a knock at the door. Without thinking, I got

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be here," said the guy standing outside, looking me over like I was the last person he thought

totally confused.

out. Water and power are getting shut off soon, and we're prepping for demolition. "Ms... Keira Kay, right?

to move. I just