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“I want to love somebody, Lib.”

He smiled as charmingly as ever, but his eyes remained solemn.

“What if this woman you care about doesn’t want kids?” What if this woman he “cared about” was like Libby? But she wasn’t going to think about that.

“I don’t know. I don’t have all the answers. You asked me what my wish was, and that was it.” His voice was as chilly as the air over the frozen six hundred acres of Lake Miniagua.

Tucker had been her friend her whole life. When no one had asked her to dance in the seventh grade, he had—and seen to it his friends followed suit. When her mother died when she was fifteen, and her father committed suicide a few years later, he’d supported her through all the stages of grief until she could bear it. He’d bought her the telescope that time. “See the stars?” he’d said. “They’re still there. Wish on them if you want.”

Sixteen years later, she still wished on stars, and counted on him to be there if she needed him. The least she could do was try to make this one wish come true for him.

“I’ll help.”