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

know.”

His chest tightened.

She continued, “I don’t want to leave. But I also don’t want to marry a version of you that cares more about what coworkers think than what kind of husband he is becoming.”

Diego nodded slowly.

“I don’t want to be that version either.”

“Then don’t promise me,” Lucia said. “Show me.”

Those two words became the start of Diego’s continue reading …