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

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It was the only question that mattered.

“Because,” he said carefully, “you sat at a table for a person who was not coming. And I thought… it sounds ridiculous in a sweater in a corridor, but I thought what you needed was a person who had also walked across that floor for no reason other than the floor. Not someone who worked there. Just someone.”

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