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Jonahback to her sides

She raised her fingers to her lips "Oh God" Her voice ripped frootten about Boone

"Not really, but close"

"Not that" Dani flushed "It’s--my fiancé is in there"

"What?"

"My ex-fiancé is in there He just walked in with another woman" How? Why? Who--so many questions ricocheted in her head "I don’t kno he knows I’m here We never talked about our histories"

The ht in the hospital, when Boone whispered his love "Dani" He held her hand, cradling it like it was the ainst his chest

He asked her to marry him

She said yes

His friends burst in from the hallway They all wanted to celebrate

She murmured now, to herself, "I was too weak"

"Dani? Too weak for what?"

She heard Jonah’s voice, but she was still in the past "I tricked hio out with his friends" She felt horror sliding through her veins, chilling her She focused on Jonah "He asked me to marry hio out for a beer He didn’t want to go, but I was in the hospital I said he needed to celebrate He was only going to be gone for thirty h to appease his friends"

She left hiht

She left a note on her bedstand

"What is he doing here?" Herfroo talk to hiht at hiaze "I’iven her his confident, cock-sure smirk when she handed over the keys She hadn’t wanted to drive, to tell the truth She wanted to sit back, not think, and watch the stars and trees fly by Any other moment in her life, Dani would’ve been unsettled by the contentment that sat with her as Jonah drove beside her Any otherabout that