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?

caught myself and managed a

“Of course not.”

on cue, my phone lit

Get some food in you, take a little walk before your nap and hey, I grabbed us

been wanting to see.”

reserved just for me,

the world

in, shaking her head

could

The Nathan Pierce that everyone else knew was all sharp suits and sharper decisions, the ruthless Wall Street legend who’d built an empire before forty. Sure, people knew he

five, and this tender, attentive version of Nathan had always been mine alone. He could recite my coffee order in his

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

Hamptons last year. Our vacation villa

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