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while another, more cowardly part of her feared that was exactly what he’d do. She wasn’t prepared for the stabbing disappointment she felt as his footsteps faded away.

She cracked the door just wide enough to see him enter Jamie’s room. From her vantage point, she watched him touching the sleeping child with such reverence, such wonder and awe, that it raised a lump in her throat.

To see a man gaze upon her child with such tenderness cracked away the final vestige of her inner restraint. This was a prince among men, Laura decided. This was the man she’d waited for her entire life.

Then she heard Royce’s footsteps descending the stairs, and she followed him as if beckoned by an invisible hand.

She didn’t know what she would do, or what she would say. All she knew was that she had to be with him, and damn the consequences.