The Wedding He Lost

ndrew Lester, the city's most austere ph

mer chauffeur, a man who had died saving Andrew's life in a boating accident

dynamic, played the part of the understanding partner, and managed our per

into his bed, he sent her away to a strict boarding school in

was just weeks b

an of the master bathroom in our Beacon Hill brown

ears of his emotional distance, his self-imposed celi

a discreet, high-end "wellness retreat" in the quiet hills of r

edroom. He broke the "no intimacy before marriage" rule he had so piously upheld. He wa

kill, but hard enough to terrify. His voice was a raw, broken whisp

is she,

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tense with a panic that h

h my child. I have to protect

of ice in my chest. The man I had loved, the man I had waited f

me for eight years had a