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He’d come to New York prepared to make quick work of a woman who’d humiliated him

Instead, he’d discovered he’d s And he’d—he’d become taken with her Such an old-fashioned word but how else to describe what he felt?

If that wasn’t enough to terrify a ine as

His phone rang

Caleb ignored it

Don’t do anything precipitous, his brothers had said, but how else to deal with this situation except to move quickly?

He didn’t regret his decision

Sage was everything ahe could want

She was a woman a man could love

The breath das Was that what this was all about? Was he—was he—

His phone rang again, this tie He grabbed the thing as if it were a lifeline

The ht back to reality

It was from Thomas Caldwell

Is it true you canceled that test, Wilde? I demand an immediate explanation Repeat, an immediate explanation

Caleb bit back a groan