At first, it didn\u2019t make sense\u2014like a memory stitched into the wrong place. A familiar face half-hidden by messy hair, cheek pressed against the wood of a park bench as if that bench was the only safe thing left in her world. She looked thinner than he remembered. Paler. And beside her, lined up like fragile secrets, were three bundled infants.<\/p>\n
Adrian stopped so abruptly Margaret nearly stumbled.<\/p>\n
The woman he\u2019d once loved and then left behind five years ago because his life was \u201ctoo complicated.\u201d The woman his mother had called\u00a0\u201csweet, but not suitable.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0The woman who vanished after their last fight\u2014after Nora begged him to choose her, just once.<\/p>\n
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