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Chapter 35

Caroline

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A pleasant lavender aroma floated around me off the steamy, bubbling surface of the hot pool. This was exactly what I imagined heaven would be like, tranquility and peace. I'd never been so relaxed in my entire life.

"I wondered where you'd escaped to."

My eyelids flashed open, a smile automatically populating my lips. Marshall stood before me in his usual black suit, his dark hair combed back and shiny with gel. His black eyes smoldered down at me.

"I wasn't sure when you'd be back," I said, "and I discovered this amazing spa."

He came to the side of the tiled hot pool and I swam over to greet him. "I'm glad you're enjoying yourself," he told me. "I like to see you relaxed."

My insides turned to straight mush. I bit the inside of my cheek to reduce the magnitude of my enormous grin. Last night felt like eons ago. I couldn't believe all that had unfolded.

Thinking back at how I'd fled the party, I felt like a fool. I was of course upset by what I'd seen. I still wasn't
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