The Heiress he never met
"I don't think either of us could have predicted, standing in that garden together, how much more joy was still waiting on the other side of everything we'd already survived."
"I think that's exactly the lesson," Wren said, resting her head against his shoulder. "The reckoning was never the end of the story. It was just the beginning of all of this — the weddings, the memoir, the committee's ongoing work, Ruth's whole rediscovered family. I keep thinking there's nothing left to be surprised by, and then something else wonderful arrives that none of us saw coming."
"I hope that never stops being true," Sebastian said, quietly, and Wren, feeling the particular contentment of a life still unfol