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Chapter Eighty-Four: Wedding Errand

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Evelyn wasn’t ready for how handsome Liam looked when he stepped out of the car.

He wasn’t even trying. Just a light blue shirt, sleeves rolled up, the morning sun catching in his hair. But the easy smile on his face… God. It did something to her chest. Something sharp. Something guilty.

“Hi, sweetheart,” he murmured, leaning in to kiss her cheek.

His lips brushed the corner of her mouth instead — an accident, a soft graze that made heat flicker under her skin and panic coil somewhere beneath it. She swallowed, smiling like her chest wasn’t closing in.

“Hey,” she whispered back.

He laced their fingers together like he always did — effortless, natural — and walked with her toward the entrance of the venue. A glass building with tall arching windows, white stone columns, and gardens falling in soft cascades around it.

It should have taken her breath away.

It didn’t.

She couldn’t breathe at all.

Inside, the planner was already waiting. A polite smile, accompanied by clipboards a
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