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?

and managed a small laugh.

“Of course not.”

on cue, my phone lit up

I’ve had Mark pick up some of your favorites from Bella’s Kitchen. Get some food

you’ve been

that gentle warmth he reserved just for me, like someone speaking to their most precious person

the world

in, shaking her

at Pierce & Associates could hear their

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

of Nathan had always been mine alone. He could recite my coffee order in his sleep, knew exactly which designer’s new collection would catch my eye, could tell from a single text if I was having a

living room couch, still in yesterday’s suit,

weekend at the Hamptons last year. Our vacation villa

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