Chapter 1

“Seriously? You’re worked up about him shaving?” my best friend Lucy let out an exasperated laugh. “Since when is

that a crime?”

“He never shaves at night,” I said quietly.

“Oh come on, maybe he had a dinner meeting!”

I shook my head firmly.

“Lucy, you know Nathan. Home by seven, lights out by eleven – the man runs like clockwork. He hasn’t done a business dinner in years.”

“Right, because he’s too busy being madly in love with you,” Lucy countered, her expression softening. “Emma, please tell me you’re not actually worried about this?

managed a

“Of course not.”

cue, my phone lit up with Nathan’s call.

had Mark pick up some of your favorites from Bella’s Kitchen. Get some food in you, take a little walk before your nap and hey, I grabbed us tickets to that new

show you’ve been wanting to

reserved just for me, like someone speaking to

the world

in, shaking her head in

Associates could

suits and sharper decisions, the ruthless Wall Street legend who’d built an empire before forty. Sure, people knew he was devoted to his wife – but they had no idea just how

mine alone. He could recite my coffee order in

I stormed out after a fight about his overprotective streak. Spent the night at The Plaza. When I came home the next morning, I found him on our living room couch, still in yesterday’s suit, looking like he’d aged years overnight. The moment he saw me, he crossed the room in three strides and

there was that weekend at the Hamptons last year. Our vacation villa caught

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