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

she?”

“No. We have shared, at most, a glass of champagne at the same table twice in two years.”

Kora listened.

Then she set down her notebook.

“The room is the right shape from this corner,” she said. “But I would like to know about the pocket watch on a future occasion.”

“On a future occasion,” Liam said.

He placed his palm halfway across the table.

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