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“I could eat a dozen cookies, so don’t tempt me.” She set her cell phone on the nightstand. The pain pill she’d taken before dinner was making her drowsy, and now that she’d checked her messages, all she wanted to do was crash. “I got interesting news from Julie Barrett.”

“The runaway bride?”

“Don’t call her that. She didn’t run away. She just...changed her mind. Better than marrying the wrong man.”

Nico perched on the edge of the bed and looked at her foot, now devoid of the boot and covered with an ice pack. “There would be nothing worse than marrying the wrong person. Have you ever been married?” he asked.

“No.”

“Engaged?”

She hesitated. “No. I thought we were heading in that direction, but I was wrong. What about you?”

“No. My friends tell me I’m too fussy. My mother says I’m too old and set in my ways. And my father tells me not to worry, I’ll know when I meet the right woman.”

“My father has been married three times and engaged twice. He has a new girlfriend every year.”

“And your mother?”