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

it reminds me what I almost lost.”

Lucia rested her head against his shoulder.

“What did you almost lose?”

He did not hesitate.

“The kind of love that poor men pray for and proud men fail to recognize.”

Lucia smiled.

Outside, Houston traffic hummed in the distance. Inside, Carmen rocked her granddaughter and sang an old song from the town Diego had once continue reading …