Redemption in Love (Hearts on the Line)

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because they found another one that was a better deal.”
    Gavin had never forgotten Jacob’s words. His life experience merely confirmed Jacob’s harsh lesson.
    When women said, “It’s not you, it’s me,” they really meant, “I found a guy with more money and more success than you.”
    So Gavin had done everything in his power to make sure he was more than others, even though he’d suffered another loss to Jacob when Catherine had decided to become Mrs. Jacob Lloyd.
    At least that had been a blessing in disguise. In hindsight, it was obvious he and Catherine were incompatible. Gavin had been more in love with the idea of marrying a beautiful girl from a respectable family and having a proper wife than the girl herself.
    He considered Amandine’s behavior. She’d appeared in his bed at Catherine’s wedding. Then afterward, she’d tiptoed out of his room and returned to her life in L.A. Gavin had chalked it up to a one-night stand. She had, after all, been drunk, and he was experienced and jaded enough to know his oldest brother was wrong about one thing: women could spread their legs for a guy without really liking him. Still, something about the encounter had bothered him. Women didn’t generally run from him. He’d never really had to chase any of them…until Amandine.
    He might have never seen her again—and would’ve done his best not to think about her—if she hadn’t worked at the Art4Kids Foundation as an art teacher. It was one of his pet charities, and he checked in periodically to make sure everything was being taken care of.
    “Hello, Amandine,” he’d said at the end of his visit with one of the foundation’s classes.
    “Gavin,” she’d said, her eyes slightly wary.
    “How are you?”
    “Good! Thank you.”
    “I believe you’re done for the day?”
    “Um…yeah, actually, I am.”
    “Excellent. How about dinner?” he’d asked, his mouth moving almost on autopilot, shocking him. Maybe his subconscious had known then she was the one for him.
    “I, uh…”
    “Say yes.”
    She’d looked at him for a long moment, worrying her lower lip, then nodded.
    A year later, they’d gotten married in an elaborate ceremony. Everyone from their families and friends had been invited, and no expense had been spared. He’d wanted to give her the fairytale wedding all women dreamed of.
    Being with him had given her access to his social circle, which teemed with the kind of successful, wealthy men any woman would love to get her clutches on. Who was she moving on to after getting rid of him?
    Normally he wouldn’t have cared. Women were everywhere, but he didn’t want Amandine to hook up with someone she’d met through him.
    But what if it’s something else? What if she’s genuinely unhappy about something?
    Why wouldn’t she tell him if that was the case?
    “I know what I see,” Mark said. “You married her for the most obvious reason men like you marry a woman. There was something special there, right? So don’t let a minor hiccup become full-blown pneumonia. Grovel for a bit, get her back, and next year don’t let anything get in the way of the anniversary dinner. Problem solved.”
    Gavin only vaguely noted his friend’s remarks. He finished his beer and went out, murmuring something about an appointment he couldn’t miss.
    He slid into his car the minute Thomas opened the door. His heart had never squeezed like this when he’d lost a woman. If they’d wanted to leave, then fine. They had his blessing. But Amandine was different. She was his wife.
    That had to be why his throat felt tight like he was suffocating. It couldn’t possibly be anything more…could it?

Chapter Six
     
    GAVIN WORKED LATE in the office, until well after eleven. His to-do items were procreating like bunnies on Viagra. No matter how fast he went through them, more seemed to appear.
    But I can still use more things to do
.
    He didn’t want to go home yet.
    Going home meant confronting the aftermath of

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