It was like seeing a ghost.
When my late husband’s twin brother moves back to our small town, I want to avoid him. Everything about Wes reminds me of the man I lost and the life we’d planned together, and after eighteen long months struggling just to get out of bed, I’m finally doing okay. I have a new job, an amazing support group, and a beautiful five-year-old daughter to parent. I don’t want to go backward.
But I’m drawn to him, too. He understands my grief and anger and guilt like no one else—and I understand his. Before long, that understanding becomes desire, and that desire becomes uncontrollable.
He says he doesn’t care what people think, and love can never be wrong. But life has taught me its cruelest lesson–love doesn’t always win.
If only my heart would believe it.
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Dear Hannah,
It’s barely dawn, and you’re still asleep upstairs. I think we will be snowed in today—it’s still coming down, and the weather report says there’s no end in sight.
I don’t mind a bit.
It’s our first Valentine’s Day together. What better way to spend it than wrapped up in our new little family, in our own little world? When you and Abby wake up, I’ll build a fire in the fireplace and we’ll keep it going all day. I’ll offer to make breakfast for you, but you will insist on being the cook, and I’ll happily let you. Maybe you’ll make the waffles with the bananas and brown sugar because you know they’re my favorite. The three of us—soon to be four—can hang out in our pajamas, watch movies, play games, eat all the snacks in the house…maybe later I’ll take Abby out sledding and show her all the places her dad and I used to go when it snowed like this. When we come in, we’ll make hot chocolate and sit in front of the fire, and torture you with more baby name suggestions. (Abby and I are still voting for Zeus, so that’s two against one, babe. Come on—father of the gods! That’s awesome!)
Every time I look at you, today and every day, I will think about how lucky I am. Sometimes I can’t believe the turns my life has taken.
I know you don’t believe me, but I knew the moment I saw you ten years ago that you were the one. That I was meant to love you. That somehow we were meant to be together. And I also know the journey we took to arrive at this destination was far from easy, but while I wish I could have spared everyone the pain of the loss we experienced, I believe it will help me to never take the time we have together and the love we share for granted.
It is the greatest gift I will ever receive.
All my love, (then, now, forever),
Wes
Melanie Harlow likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. When she’s not writing or reading, she gets her kicks from TV series like VEEP, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, and Homeland. She occasionally runs three miles, but only so she can have more gin and steak.
Melanie is the author of the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED series, and the sexy historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s. She lifts her glass to romance readers and writers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.
Mairim Santos says
Aww…Wes is the best.