The Candidate (Romantic Suspense) (The Candidate Series) - Plot & Excerpts
He noticed she wasn’t wearing her glasses. He imagined that the tears, streaming down her cheeks, had made that impossible. The scarf on her head covered her hair completely. While it gave her the anonymity she sought during this crisis, it so clearly exposed the facial features she shared with her sister—the high cheekbones, upturned nose, and those beautifully arched brows above her wide eyes. He tried to stifle his heartbroken groan but he couldn’t. It roused her from her trance. Seeing this, he forced himself to say, “I’m…sorry.”“Why? Because she was on the plane with him, as opposed to me?”He winced, not because of the sharpness of her tone or the piercing scrutiny of her question, but from the precision in which she exposed the truth.Yes, he wished Maddy were here with him, now.His reaction brought a tremble to her lips. It startled him to think she was actually hurt by this truth. Of course she is hurt, he reasoned. She just found out her husband betrayed her, with her own sister.That Maddy had been loved by two men. The same two men who had betrayed Abby.Despite the pain it might bring her, he had to ask, “Why weren’t you there, with him?”The tears were falling again.
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