My mother’s smile disappeared. My father slowly lowered his phone. And Derek— Derek simply stared at me. For one second, I was thirty years old again, standing…

The door closed. For several seconds, nobody moved. Then Noah tugged on my sweater. “Mom?” I looked down. His dark eyes were wide. “Who was that man?”…

My father immediately stepped in front of me. “How do you know my daughter’s name?” Adrian Crowe did not answer him. His eyes remained fixed on me….

I looked at my passport. Then at Adrián. “Well…” I lifted it. “It seems someone is going to South Africa.” Adrián took the passport from my hand….

Ethan Harrison stared at my phone. Then at his. Then back at me. “Emma…” His voice had gone strangely quiet. “Why do I have your number saved…

“Then why do I keep looking at the door?” The thought reached me so clearly that I stopped packing. Alejandro was miles away. And yet his voice…

Bianca’s smile faded. Adrian stepped closer to her automatically, as though even now his first instinct was to shield her from me. I looked at them both….

I held the phone against my ear. Chu Dien’s voice came through the noise. “Don’t you feel like our marriage is having problems?” I looked at the…

I left Ethan’s grandfather’s birthday before the cake was cut. Nobody stopped me. That was almost funny. For two years, I had been the person who remembered…