"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.

bad accident-was street racing with a rough crowd back then. He was still a kid. I tried to get him away from all that, but before I could, he

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 his

swept back to that grim moment, a chill creeping through

managed,

surgery, he seemed to forget everything-even his parents' deaths. So I lied to him. Told him his mom and dad moved

anger than the agony of loss and guilt. Some memories were too cruel to

how she felt-just

how did you two run into each other?" Marcus asked, a little

Leonie piped up, unable to hold back any

the way, your nephew's got a thing for my aunt. You'd better tell him to

feelings

He knew Leonie was Hawthorne's niece and had no qualms about answering

"He always treated me like a little

letting old misunderstandings rob her of the only brotherly bond she had left

same boy anymore. These days, he's a real ladies' man. New girlfriend every three months-he won't be hung up on

and I'll post your number online for

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

back to the way he was. She could never see him

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