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CHAPTER ONE

How had it come to this?

Ada planner in a few ood practical joke

His brother Rafe and his future sister-in-law Brooke were getting married on the beach at Lake Wenatchee in the Cascade Mountains in five weeks When they’d initially told hirilled over a ca suits on the beach, sailboat races, and a weekend of hiking through the surrounding mountains with his favorite people But then, suddenly, they orking with so weekend wedding had been shot to hell

Wedding plannerssuits dyed ridiculous colors that no guy would ever willingly choose to wear, and endless toasts

But when Adas & Events, he was impressed despite hi on the facing wall of a glowing bride in a flohite dress, laughing as she tossed her bouquet toward her brides dreale ele that rarely happened for an architect and builder as always s and rooms he entered

Both Rafe’s and Brooke’s work schedules had heated up just as they were in the crucial final planning stages for their wedding, and Rafe had been worried that Brookeher drea planner by bailing on anotherto step in on their behalf Even though, as far as he was concerned, there had already been a heck of a lot of Sullivan weddings in the past couple of years First Chase, Marcus, Gabe, Sophie, and Lori—his San Francisco cousins—had all tied the knot And then Rafe, Mia, Dylan, and Ian, his three brothers and sister, were all either engaged or married now, too

Love and e had taken over the West Coast Sullivans one by one, like an aets one after another Only instead of winning huge stuffed anis on their fingers

For all Adah, they all knew that he was happy for them Truly happy that they’d each found someone they wanted to be with for the rest of their lives

That didn’t mean, however, that he was anywhere near that frame of mind himself Wo as the enjoyment lasted Fortunately, the women he dated had always been of like irl looked at and thought, Now, there’s my forever And he was okay with that More than okay He had plenty of nieces and nephews to play with thanks to his cousins, and likely his siblings soon, too

Sure, Ada about hie to block out the endlessly repeating refrains fro to theht wo And, evidently, he hadn’t yet realized how love would change everything for him

Adaainst theinto a roo his life forever He’d never co bolt had hit him, the way his brother Ian had with his fiancée, Tatiana He couldn’t iht the way his brother Dylan had with his wife, Grace, and her son, Mason There’d never been anyone he’d pined over for years the way his sister, Mia, had for her husband, Ford And he couldn’t think of anyone he’d known from childhood whom he would ever fall in love with the way Rafe had with Brooke

Nope, his fa to have to accept that Cupid’s arroould be skipping this Sullivan