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As she walked back to the farmhouse, Abigail thought about everything Scott had told her. He was holding back, a lot. He’d said, ‘After a minor upset with the firm’, which meant a huge upset. She had to know what happened. The Scott she was talking to now was just a shell of the handsome, confident man she fell in love with that bittersweet summer.
It was clear to her that Sara and Charlie didn’t know him well enough, so they were out. The only person she could think of to ask was Scott’s aunt. How would she approach that question? She couldn’t just show up at her home asking questions. There had to be a way.
Another way could be to coax it out of Scott himself, while they worked together on Fabiana and Ilario’s wedding. It was her best hope.
When she reached the house, Fabiana had
