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130. The Vows – Part 2 

Author: Aimee Lane
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~ CARA ~

Rig was so freaking adorable when he was trying to make me feel good I didn’t know what to say. Everything he’d said was so beautiful—and blunt. I felt like it was impossible to say anything that was going to make him feel the way he’d made me feel. But then I took a leaf out of his book.

I’d just speak the truth, and to hell with whether it sounded pretty. If it was true, it had meaning.

I looked up into his incredible eyes, took in the sheer beauty of him with that sharp jaw and dark hair falling over his forehead and shook my head.

A tiny shadow of doubt crept into his eyes then, but I smiled and the sun came back out.

“When we met I thought you were someone else,” I sa

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