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Trusting me. But she doesn’t know there is a huge part of her hiding, and I’m not helping her find it.”
    “Bring her to the party,” Scott said. “When she meets the family, maybe she’ll remember.”
    “Might be a downer on the party,” Sam said.
    “Who cares?” Scott retorted. “This is our mom. This is your mate. You’ve done everything for us. We aren’t going to stop until you’re happy. If that means helping you and Mom come together, then we’ll do it. No matter how uncomfortable it makes it.”
    “I still don’t know if she meant to come back. What if she never meant to?”
    “Then it’s still better to know,” Scott said. “The truth is always better than a fantasy.”
    Sam shook his head slowly. “No. Sometimes a fantasy is much, much better than the truth. I’ve had twenty years of truth. I wanted the fantasy. But everything has to end.” He felt weary and resigned, but his son was right. He had to stop living on the surface with Jo and get to the deeper layers. The painful, icky parts of their lives that needed to be relived and hashed out. One of his flaws had always been being too optimistic, only wanting to look at the bright side.
    But he’d spent years nearly mad with grief when he couldn’t find her. For a while when she’d come back, it’d been like making love to someone you thought was dead. Like some kind of ghost. But he needed to help her come back to full-blooded life. He needed to help her remember her bear.
    Even if her bear tore her away from him.
    He felt his heart threatening to crack in half as he answered his son. “I’ll bring her to the party. Tell Sky we’ll be there.”

7
    J o didn’t know what to wear to her son’s party. She’d worn her nicest dress on the night she met with Sam. And what a night that had been. She stroked the red gown lovingly as she remembered their dinner together, and him telling her she had sons.
    From that moment on, her heart felt like it had started beating again. Though life was scarier when she thought about meeting the family she’d been away from for so long, she felt she’d never truly be whole until she did.
    Even if apologies needed to be made and relationships needed to be healed. She’d have Sam by her side, and that was all that mattered.
    “You’ll look beautiful in anything,” Sam said, opening and shutting her suite door quietly as he joined her. “I am particularly fond of that dress though.”
    She smiled. “Me too.” She pulled a black dress out that was a simple, knee-length sheath. “But I was thinking this one.”
    “A bit somber,” he said. “But professional.”
    She laughed. “It’s a bit of a somber occasion.”
    “It’s a party,” he said. “For your grandkids.”
    “Grandkids?” Her heart raced as she looked in Sam’s earnest blue eyes. “I have grandkids.”
    “I didn’t remember if I told you before. My sons… they were worried about letting their kids get attached if you were going to…”
    “To run,” she said, realization dawning on her. “They were worried I was going to run. Do you think I will? When I remember, I mean?”
    “I think it’s your choice,” he said. “But I hope you won’t.” He sat on her bed, propping himself against the headboard with his hands behind his head. “But I guess we’ll have to deal with it as it comes.”
    “Do you think I’ll remember? At the party, I mean?”
    He nodded. “At least some things. But I’ll be with you.” He sat forward, looking at her with serious eyes. Damn, he was too handsome for words. That square jaw, those carved lips, that dimple in his chin. And those amazing blue eyes that seemed to go on forever under his blond lashes. She wanted to reach out and stroke his cheek, but she resisted, trying to keep herself distant so she could be ready for tonight.
    Being with Sam, touching Sam, still unlocked a vulnerable part of herself that she needed to lock away in order to go meet these other members of her