THE EMPTY CHAIR AT HER SISTER’S WEDDING WAS SUPPOSED TO PROVE HER FIANCÉ HAD LEFT HER—BUT WHEN A QUIET STRANGER SAT BESIDE HER, KORA NEVER IMAGINED HE OWNED THE HOTEL, OR THAT HIS FAMILY WAS ALREADY PLANNING THE MARRIAGE THAT COULD DESTROY THEM BOTH

for a long moment.

“Take me home, please,” she whispered.

“Where is home today?” Liam asked.

“Charles Street.”

“All right.”

He put her coat on her in the lobby, nodded to the doorman, and walked her four blocks back through the cool September evening, his hand at the small of her back, still keeping the respectful distance he had kept for months.

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