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 small

“Of course not.”

my phone

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

been wanting to

voice carried that gentle warmth he reserved just for me, like

the world

in, shaking her head

Associates could hear their ice–cold CEO

built an empire before forty. Sure, people knew he was devoted to his wife – but they

together for ten years, married for five, and this tender, attentive version of Nathan had always been mine alone. He could recite my coffee order in his sleep, knew exactly which

summer, 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 pulled me close, his voice breaking: “I’m so sorry, baby. Never

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

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