HE TOOK HIS FIANCÉE TO HIS POOR HOMETOWN TO TEST HER—BUT THE PAPER SHE HANDED HIM LEFT HIM TOO ASHAMED TO MEET HER EYES

The honesty hurt, but he had earned it.

“I insulted my mother too,” he admitted.

Lucia’s expression softened slightly. “Yes.”

Diego swallowed hard. “Can you forgive me?”

Lucia glanced toward the doorway where Carmen had gone. “Forgiveness isn’t the first question.”

“What is?”

“Whether I can trust the kind of man who sets a trap for the woman he claims to continue reading …