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 small laugh.

“Of course not.”

if on cue, my phone lit up with Nathan’s

mentioned you hardly touched your lunch. I’ve had Mark pick up some of your favorites from Bella’s Kitchen. Get some food

been wanting to

reserved just for me, like someone speaking to their most

the world

in, shaking

& Associates could hear their ice–cold CEO right

sharp suits and sharper decisions, the ruthless Wall Street legend who’d built an empire before forty. Sure, people knew he was devoted to his

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

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

year. Our vacation villa caught fire

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