Wide-eyed and a little shaky, I stared straight ahead as the officiant said the words I was dreading. “Do you promise to love, honor, cherish, and keep him for as long as you both shall live?” “Jack Hawthorne to be your lawfully wedded husband?” “Do you, Rose Coleson, solemnly declare to take…” Note to my past self: Do NOT, I repeat, do not say yes to marrying the handsome stranger you happen to know absolutely nothing about. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.įor anyone who has ever felt like they didn’t belong. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. We were doomed from the very beginning with those names. The next it was still nothing but a lie.After all, I was Rose and he was Jack. The next he seemed to be completely mine.One second I thought we were in love. The next he became everything.One second he was unattainable. And day after day my heart started to get a mind of its own.One second he was no one. No, he still didn't talk much, but anyone can string a few words together. Jack Hawthorne was nothing like what I'd imagined for myself.I blamed him for my lapse in judgment.I blamed his eyes, the ocean blue eyes that looked straight into mine unapologetically, and that frown on his face I had no idea I would become so fascinated with in time.It wasn't long after he said I was the biggest mistake of his life that things started to change. Well.I did all those things except the walking away part.It took him only minutes to talk me into a business deal.erm, I mean marriage, and only days for us to officially tie the knot. You'd think I'd laugh in his face, call him insane-and a few other names-then walk away as quickly as possible. A stranger who had been dumped by her fiancé only weeks before. A complete stranger who had never even heard of him. You'd think a guy who looked like him-a bit cold maybe, but still striking and very unattainable-would only ask the love of his life to marry him, right? You'd think he must be madly in love.Nope. The day he lured me into his office-which was also the first day we met-he proposed.
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