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“Twenty-nine is not that young, and I swear this kid is all Julian Stubborn, de, doesn’t ever listen to me”

“Sounds like your brother”

She lovingly s up?”

“Is that why you’re here?”

“Well, I ht?”

“Four o’clock”

She looked down at her watch “So that e your mind”

“Autumn,” I coaxed “Not you too”

“Kinley, Christian is , he’s drowning hiet back to the ranch until ht, sometimes later”

I wiped down the counter “That’s just Christian, Autumn He’s a workaholic”

“I know” She sighed “He gets it froh He means well You kno irl, I used to aduys’ relationship so much I wanted what you had”

“And look, you ended up with his best friend”

“Yeah … ould have thought, right?”

“I did”

“What?”

I nodded

“No way”

“I never told you this, but on your seventeenth birthday, I saw him follow you out into the woods”

She gasped “You did?”

“Who do you think kept Christian away from you?”

“Oh my God! Why didn’t you ever tell me?”

“We didn’t really get close until you had Capri, and by then I didn’t want to bring him up”

“I can’t believe you never told me”

“Julian thinks he was all sly when it came to you, but he wasn’t I could always tell he loved you”

“Really?”

“Of course What’s not to love?”

“Well, the saoes for you and my brother, Kinley I know you don’t want this divorce The whole faoing through a rough patch”

“It’s h patch”

“Marriage is a lot of work—I don’t have to tell you that Especially with a ressive, but he loves with all his heart and soul You’ve been together for twenty years That’s a very long time to be with someone, and trust me, half the time I want to kill Julian Especially noith all these hornant woman”