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Chapter One

Molly

“Molly, just give it more time I’m sure you’ll conceive”

I look up fro around on ry But a dinner out see in the penthouse condo alone all night for the fourth ti that’s beco

It’s his place, even though the condo is ‘ours’ I still find it odd calling it ho in it for a year But I don’t think anything has ever felt like a real home before Not like the ones I’ve dreamed of, anyway It still feels like it’s hisa house The house that will be the hoed for and dreamed about for most ofput on the back burner, and I’ to think I am, too

Cindy places her hand onsqueeze Everyone knoe’ve been trying to have a baby fro how excited I was about starting a faed me to be more vocal about it, to see it as a reality He’d started to make these little dreams I had in my head come alive It was all a part of the fairy-tale dream I’d fallen into the moment I’d met Phillip

Young girl falls madly in love with her father’s new business partner, and he sweeps her off her feet in a ind e The press ate the story up Millionaire Phillip Tanner finally tying the knot Not only that, but with his new business partner Charles Moore’s daughter Their partnership brought together two of the biggest hedge fund firms in the country, and it was believed they would be unstoppable together They have been

I s look “I know When I’nant, I will” I’ I want any a family is all I’ve ever wanted

I wanted all of it The whole white picket fence, two-point-five kids, and a husband who adoredhusband—when he was around, anyway I could deal with not being the center of his attention, but I didn’t want that for our children I’d been a child with a father like that, and I wouldn’t do that tothem into a home that never really felt like a home at all

I can deal with it I love my husband, and I know he loves me, but it’s been crazy lately, and I worry thathim away Maybe it’s me What if I don’t hold the same appeal I once did? What if the novelty has worn off in the saritto push that insecurity back

But that just doesn’t add up, not with the way Phillip touches ht when he crawls into bed, even after a long day at work He can’t go to sleep without having me first

Except last night I don’t knohen he got hoot ho He said he had a bigthis weekend