"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.

truth. "He had a bad accident-was street racing with a rough crowd back then. He was still a kid.

calm, but only he knew the despair that had swallowed him the day he saw Max lying in a pool of his own blood. He'd been there when

felt herself swept back to that grim

managed, her hand

forget everything-even his parents' deaths. So I lied to him. Told him his mom and dad moved far away, that they didn't really care for him. He

the agony of loss and guilt.

she felt-just an aching sympathy

two run into each other?" Marcus asked, a

up, unable to hold back

a thing for

see that Connor's feelings for Gwyneth were

knew Leonie was Hawthorne's niece

quietly. "He always treated me like a little

misunderstandings rob her of the only

not the same boy anymore. These days, he's a real ladies' man. New girlfriend

and I'll post your number online for blind dates," Connor

accept it, but now he'd come to terms. He didn't remember much, but even if he and Gwyneth couldn't be a couple, being like siblings

Max could go back to the way he was. She could

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