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I stepped into the sophisticated interior of the prep school and saw Caleb, sittingdully, his eyes on the ground I cleared s working just fine in their sprint across the roo into my arhtly and enjoyed, for one heart-breaking moment, the smell of little boy

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I lost the baby at five months After four years, I still couldn’t talk about it without crying Funny how so I’d lived for

I wouldn’t depress you with the details One day I was pregnant, our nursery ready, plans and possibilities in place, the next I wasn’t

I’d given up so much for that baby And he never came

JULY

"Ty practically bled Yankee blood already She should have been ecstatic, e, she wasn’t She seemed shell-shocked Alht things, but there just wasn’t any light behind her eyes"

Dan Velacruz, New York Times

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"Tell me what I can do to make you happy"

I rolled over onto his chest, and looked up at hihed "That’s it? Your key to lifelong happiness?"

Lifelong happiness? A concept given up years ago "He’s dead weight His knee is shot," I pointed out "And he sh to quit, he doesn’t care enough about his job"

"Sos can’t be quit, Ty" His eyes darkened, and his hand, the one wrapped aroundwhen heons apart, wrapping them around his waist "Go with chocolate"

Then he yanked atabout Perkins and chocolate I wrapped reedy kiss, and I gasped out a sigh when he thrust inside of me

He loved me Fiercely Unselfishly For most women, it was all they needed in life

But me, I needed the curse to stop