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The Millionaire's Bride Chapter 87
NOAHNoah squared his shoulders toward Camille’s stepdad. Their last meeting had kicked off the worst period of Noah’s life—the years he’d been forced to spend without Camille. Nathan Vanderbilt might hold all the cards, but Noah would never cower to another man. With as much calm as he could muster, Noah extended his hand in greeting. “Mr. Vanderbilt.”Nathan’s gaze hadn’t left Noah’s, but his fist remained clenched at his side. A scowl painted the older man’s face, but it was subtle. A Vanderbilt never truly showed his temper.Bonnie released Noah’s other hand and ran to her husband. “Oh, Nathan.” She sobbed onto his chest. “She’s in there, and she looked—”“Yes,” Nathan interrupted his wife. He spoke to her, but his focus was still trained on Noah. “Why don’t you have a seat in the waiting room? I’ll be right there.”Bonnie wasn’t a pushover, but she liked to keep the peace, and she wasn’t oblivious to the tension between her husband and Noah.He retracted his waiting hand and cros
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CAMILLECamille slowly opened her eyes and turned her head. Everything hurt.“Sweetie? Sweetie, I’m here.” Someone stood, hanging over her, assessing her with wide eyes.Confusion filled her head, and it took a moment for the recognition to settle in place before she said, “Mom?”Her mind was blank. She just stared—at her mother, at the walls. It hurt to turn her head much, but she didn’t really care.Her mother rattled on, calling for a nurse, asking for the doctor.Camille just stared, not sure what to think because it was hard to focus long enough to think about any one thing. Thoughts shot around in her head, vying for her attention, but darting away too fast to catch. It was exhausting.Nurses came to assess her, followed by a doctor. Finally, Camille asked, “What happened?”A nurse in pink scrubs with a copper pixie cut answered, “You were in a wreck. You’ve been in a coma for two days.”The information didn’t register. The pain overpowered everything else. “My head.”“Do you ne
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NOAHSix Months LaterNoah’s phone dinged as he stepped through the door of Sticky Sweets Bakery. He scrambled to pull the phone from his pocket. He knew it was Jenny. Her morning updates about Camille’s recovery were like clockwork, and he lived for those bits of information. If he couldn’t be there with Camille himself, hearing from Jenny that Camille was doing well was the next best thing.Jenny: Our girl is good. Starting back to work this morning.Someone shoved his shoulder, and he turned to see Lucas following him. Most of their crew members stopped by Sticky Sweets for coffee before the grind of the shift. The owner, Tracy, was a good friend of his mom, and she always threw in a cream cheese Danish for him if she was working the register. Those treats were certainly worth the extra hours in the gym.Lucas pointed toward the growing line. “Migrate, man. We got somewhere to be.” Their shift didn’t start for another hour, but they all liked to arrive early. He leaned in closer an
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CAMILLE“I know he’s important, Jen.” Camille balanced the phone between her ear and shoulder as she typed in the data from the last donation.Jenny sighed on the other end of the call. “You’re right. He is important. I just don’t know how to tell you about him. He’s… different.”Camille agreed. She hadn’t been able to stop thinking of Noah since he’d said his name at Sticky Sweets at the beginning of the week. His dark, expressive eyes were hard to forget. The more she thought about him, the more she remembered that stubbled jaw and broad nose.She’d been all but obsessing over the man in her dreams for months, and it’d been a shock to run into the handsome firefighter in town. She’d been describing the man in her dreams to Jenny since the accident, and her cousin hadn’t let on that it might be someone that Camille used to know.“I’ll say,” Camille agreed. “But it doesn’t matter what kind of different he is. I need to remember how I knew him.”Camille’s dreams had morphed from the sh
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Camille slid across the hardwood floor of the kitchen in her fuzzy socks. The sticky note on her bathroom mirror this morning said today was her last scheduled follow-up appointment for her head injury, and it was a glorious day. She woke up with a spring in her step and a song in her heart. Coffee was brewing, birds were chirping in the warm sun, and Camille would be free of all restrictions soon.She’d been released to return to work a month ago, and honestly, she felt like that should’ve been the end of it. She’d done everything her doctors had recommended to help recover her memory. Still, better to take the doctor’s orders and show up for one last appointment.The sticky notes were still plastered all over her house, and she kept the Bluetooth tracker on her keys and purse, but things were getting better. She wasn’t ready to say she didn’t need those crutches anymore, but maybe the puzzles and exercising were helping.Camille’s phone rang, and she bounded to it, kicking her feet
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NOAHNoah trudged into the main house and toed off his boots just as his brother, Aaron, pulled up and parked his pickup. All of the Harding brothers knew to leave the space closest to the door for Aaron so he could carry his son, Levi, inside. Days started early on the ranch, and Levi was a sound sleeper for a three-year-old. No one saw a reason to wake the kid at five in the morning.Dixie panted, wagging her tail and bouncing from side to side.“Hey, girl.” Noah squatted to scratch the dog’s head. The border collie was a trained wrangler, and she sure helped out when it came to moving the herds.Stepping from the light-blue dusk into the meeting room of his parents’ house, Noah hung his walnut-colored cowboy hat on the rack by the door. It was more of a dining hall, but they always discussed chores and family topics during meals when they were all together. The first floor of what they all called the main house was made up of one cavernous meeting room on one side with wooden walls
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NOAHThe next week, Noah balanced two to-go cups of coffee on his arm as he unlocked the door to Blackwater Restoration. It was early, but he’d bet his last paycheck that Camille was already in her office.The bell chimed above the door as he entered, and Camille peeked her head out of the office doorway before he’d taken five steps.“Morning,” she greeted him. “You’re here early.”Noah’s heartbeat fluttered in his chest. He’d never get used to her beauty. It knocked him on his rear end every time he saw her. Her dark hair hung in waves over her shoulder, and her straight nose slanted down toward her thin lips.“Morning, sunshine.”Camille met him by the register, and he extended one of the cups to her. She lit up with a smile that filled her whole face. The mounds of her cheeks lifted, and her eyes almost squinted with the expression.“And that’s how I know you’re special.”He wasn’t sure where this was going, but he was more than happy to follow. “How?”“You make me smile before I’v
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Camille peeked at the clock on the wall in her office and wondered if it was too early to mosey on over to the ranch. Noah said the whole family had supper together at six thirty in the evening, so this technically wasn’t a date. Still, it didn’t hurt anyone when she imagined that it was a date. It was a few minutes till five now, but she could take her time and familiarize herself with the area. He’d given her the address before he left the store around three in the afternoon.She pulled out of the parking lot at Blackwater Restoration and followed the robotic directions from her 4Runner’s built-in navigation system. She smiled every time she anticipated a turn before the voice told her where to go.When she saw the rusted sign that said “Blackwater Ranch” at the end of a dirt road, she sat up straighter in her seat. The dash clock told her she was twenty minutes early, and she wasn’t sure if Noah and his family were ready for her yet.Camille parked her car near the entrance to a bi
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