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“I would have had plenty of good reasons to leave Ed, had he stayed and reed to marry him”

Roone was in an ice bucket and the strawberries in a bowl The room service attendant put the tray on the coffee table Callum tipped him and he left

Going back to Hazel, he sat beside her Leaning forward, he reently popped the cork, which didn’t go flying Setting that aside, he poured Hazel, then hilass, he clinked his to hers

“Here’s to you being the a woman you are”

She smiled softly “Thank you”

As she sipped, her golden-green eyes looked up at hilass, she said, “If you aren’t careful, youme too much to leave me when this is all over”

He’d rather not go there yet “Maybe I prefer to take it one day at a time”

“Me as well” She took a strawberry from the bowl and put it to his mouth

He ate it and then took one for her, feeding her a strawberry

“Mne,” she said

“It’s the pairing of the sweetness in both” He sipped sone

“What were you like before Annabel?” Hazel asked

He wasn’t sure what she wanted to know “With women? The same”

“No, did you date a lot? My guess is you had girls crawling all over you in high school After that you must have dated a lot”

He hadn’t thought of that since Annabel was killed He had been very different “I did date a lot”