Countering His Claim

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Rachel Bailey. Countering His Claim

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“Make a wish.”

A kiss. In that moment all Luke wanted was to turn her to face him, to lean down and touch her sweet lips with his.

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She thought back to several conversations she’d had with Patrick where she’d suggested he tell his family how serious his cancer was—or closer to the end, that he let her call them. But he’d been adamant. He didn’t want them to see him frail and wasted, and he didn’t want to endure their reactions to seeing him in that state. He said he wanted them to remember him as he’d been, but she’d wondered if it was denial—if a distraught family had arrived, he would have had to face his own mortality head-on.

She tightened her crossed arms a little. “Patrick was a proud man and he thought it would be for the best this way.”

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