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The day when he’d stopped being able to see the beauty in anything

Fro for nuone for to replace grief

Until Serena had appeared, like a beautiful angel, before hiraphy had died when his mother had, had known he couldn’t possibly take another picture without being able to show it to her But now, suddenly, he found hiain? Could he take a picture one day and not feel only the pain, the helplessness, of watching his moe to capture Serena’s beauty on fil down on her, the saain in the photo archives when she’d been studying Ansel Adams’s photo, Bridalveil Fall

The knock came at his door a beat before he heard a female voice say, "Sean? Are you in there?"

Olivia? What was his sister doing here?

Of course, it wasn’t hard to guess that she azine His little sister, Maddie, had been the first to text hi Serena Britten and to find out if she was as pretty in person as she was in iven her both answers, first that he was trying to convince Serena to date him--and also that she was a thousand times more beautiful in person His two older brothers were likely too busy taking over the business and rock ’n’ roll worlds to have seen the story yet, and no doubt his twin had been locked inside a lab all day and hadn’t even seen the sunlight, let alone so Worried about it all, too And if his fastidious sister illing to pick her way through euys to come and see him, that meant she was really worried

He opened the door "Welcome"

"I really don’t kno you can stand to live in a place like this," she muretting to the point, she sat down on the edge of his bed and pulled out her phone to show him the story he’d already seen too ht at dinner And since I can see that you’re not surprised, I take it you’ve already seen it"

He sat in the chair behind his desk and swiveled it to face Olivia His rooest in the frat house--and one of the only ones that came with its own bathroo up all the oxygen in the rooood dozen ti to see in things like this--at least, until you went pro"

Sean instantly tensed up at the assu to play pro baseball He was used to strangers bringing it up, but a part of hih he hadn’t actually said or done ht want to pursue a different path in life

"Is it true? Are you dating the supermodel?"

Olivia only had his best interests at heart, but he still didn’t like the way she’d boiled Serena down to the supermodel "Her na none of this was his sister’s fault "No, we’re not dating" Not yet, anyway "But we’re friends"

"Really? You’re not dating?" She looked down at the pictures, seeing what everyone else e of a kiss, both of ere dying for it "Because you two look pretty close for just being friends"