Page 64 of Seasons of Sin

“And Anita? Is she still trying to befriend you?”

Saphire nodded, but her features were composed. “I feel sorry for her, but I can’t see us becoming what we were ever again.”

“I imagine you’d have trust issues,” he drawled. “As would she, given that Jordan did the exact same thing to her as he did to you.”

“Obviously it’s just in his nature.” She shook her head. “It’s a shame, because there is enough in him to lead me to believe that he could be a really great guy. If he could just keep it in his pants.”

Thaddeus laughed. “His loss, in this instance, will forever be my gain. I owe him a debt of enormous gratitude for the fact that he was such an idiot he let you go.”

She lifted her gaze to his handsome face. “As do I.”

“Well, Mrs Konstanides? Shall we?”

The last lingering doubt rolled out to sea with the gently swelling waves. She flashed him a bright smile and then took a step towards the house. The first step towards the rest of their lives.

“Well, it is our honeymoon,” she murmured and she was so focused on the house in their path that she didn’t see the wayher new husband’s face glowed with the kind of happiness that could never be expressed in words. It was a happiness that could simply be lived; and they intended to live it every day for the rest of their lives.

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