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“Didn’t you marry the first man who came along after I left?”

“Left is the operative word. You had left, Alex,” Shea threw at him.

“And barely a month later you married Jamie. My own cousin,” he said with heavy contempt.

“Well, it’s all in the past now. Jamie and I had a good marriage and—”

Alex grasped her arm. “Jamie told me how happy you were. And I died a thousand deaths over the years thinking of you with him, then hating myself because I envied him when he was just like a brother to me. I used to torture myself imagining you together, you kissing Jamie the way you used to kiss me.”

Shea’s mouth was dry. Her whole body wanted to move toward him, but with steely control she held herself rigidly apart.

“When you were making love with Jamie, did you ever imagine it was me?”