"So, Gwyn, what brings you to Greenvale?" Marcus asked, genuinely puzzled.

He'd expected Gwyneth to stay put in Starfall City.

Since it was rare for old friends to meet up, Marcus invited her out to a café. Leonie, determined to keep an eye on her uncle's friends and with her usual stubbornness, insisted on coming along.

Naturally, Hans tagged along too.

Marcus didn't mind.

"I'm getting married," Gwyneth announced.

Marcus set his cup down on its saucer with a sharp clink.

"No wonder," he said. "Word's all over Greenvale. Mr. Everhart's got the papers signed and the wedding's set for the end of the year."

Gwyneth had thought only the family knew-but apparently Hawthorne had managed to make it Greenvale's hottest gossip.

She just nodded. There was no need to elaborate. What she really wanted was news of Max.

"He's not quite the same as he used to be," Gwyneth ventured, choosing her words carefully.

crowd back then. He was still a kid. I tried to

Max lying in a pool of his own blood. He'd been there when his sister and brother-in-law died too, and only

swept back to that grim moment, a chill

she managed,

deaths. So I lied to him. Told him his mom and dad moved far away, that

regret rewriting Max's memories. Better a little anger than the agony of loss and guilt. Some memories were

how she felt-just

two run into each other?"

aunt rear-ended your nephew's car," Leonie piped up, unable to hold back any longer after listening in for so

nephew's got a thing for

see that Connor's feelings for Gwyneth were anything

getting married-Max won't do anything," Marcus said bluntly. He knew Leonie was Hawthorne's niece and had

even remember me," Gwyneth said quietly. "He always treated me like a

old misunderstandings rob her of the only

a real ladies' man. New girlfriend every

online for blind dates," Connor shot back as he slid into

to accept it, but now he'd come to terms. He didn't remember much,

way he was. She could never see him as more than a brother-just like she did with

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