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"Looking for you"

Her stomach did a soer all over again "I'm here"

"So I see," he said, advancing toward her and e of the desk, facing her "How are you?"

Her stoed from his tuxedo, but even dressed down, casual in a black knit shirt and khaki slacks, he looked gorgeous The black shirt lossier, his jaw more pronounced

"Fine" She sed convulsively, nerves and tears battling for each other "How are you?"

"Fine"

The strained civility h Or cry

This had been one of the worst days of her life She had no idea ould happen now

Morgan hesitated, appeared to pick his words with care "It was rather aith you leaving so suddenly"

She had aup front at the altar with the priest and the ring boy and the flower girl watching Winnie turn around, white skirts billowing, as she ran

It was an awful mental picture and she pressed her nails to her skirt to erase it "Was it that terrible?"

One of his black eyebrows lifted "What do you think?"

So it was really terrible No use kidding herself He'd been hu her throat "I'm sorry"

He shrugged "Fortunately I've been through this before so I' brides"

Her eyebrows puckered "Be serious"

"I alints shone in his dark blue eyes "Don't believe me? Ask my mother Rose will tell you all about it It was fifteen years ago Her naht ere deeply in love"

Winnie didn't knohat to say The office seeers, knuckles aching "Did she really leave you at the altar, too?"

A save h to cancel a week before But that didn't make it less difficult People want to knohat happened They don't want to ask, andfeho do"

"What was her reason for canceling?"

His shoulders shifted and he walked to theto gaze out at the enormous Federal Reserve Bank of New York "It's complicated, but the bottom line was that she had concerns aboutfor the correct words "Family tree"

The Gradys were one of the oldest most-respected families in Boston How could anyone have a problem with his family? "That doesn't make sense"

He looked at her over his shoulder, his expression al "It does if you know e, I'm an O'Connell, not a Grady Charlotte didn't discover this until a couple weeks before our wedding and she panicked-" he broke off, wincing at the word "-changed her mind She didn't want an O'Connell She wanted a Grady A real Grady"

Winnie struggled to assi "You're not Rose and Reed Grady's son?"

"I'hter, his smile harder

"Sa"

"Not to Charlotte"

Indignant, Winnie rose from her chair "Then she didn't deserve you! She doesn't have a heart and she never loved you-"

"Who are you to talk about love?" He interrupted, facing her "You weren'tme for love, were you?"

Winnie turned away, she couldn't look at hi Her parents used to say she couldn't keep any wrong a secret

"Do you lovetoward her, tension in every muscle of his body

Winnie sat down again, still averting her head But Morgan turned her chair toward hiaze