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Salvatore shrugs. “I miss my wife. It’s a good way to see her.”

“I still say you should’ve just taken the wall out,” Hugh Wilson says as he walks by, laughing.

I’m going to love working here. We get into Salvatore’s SUV and head to the bakery. We greet all the mamás and pick out our pastries.

“Sal was saying that a new coffee shop opened up?” I ask.

“Yes, Espresso Joy. That door there connects Riley’s shop to our cafe,” my antín tells me.

Riley. Fuck I miss my Riley. I head over through the cafe and into the coffee shop. There’s a little musical bell that goes off when I step through. I look around at the new coffee shop. It smells delicious and the decorations are awesome. I step up to the counter and wait for someone to come out.

“Riley?”

CHAPTER FOUR

Riley

Holy shit. Fionn. My Fionn is standing here in front of me.

“W-what are you doing here?” I ask.

“You’re the owner of the new coffee shop?”

“Yes.”

I can’t believe he’s standing here in front of me.

“You two know each other?” Salvatore asks.

“We met in Ireland,” Fionn says to him as he nods.

Daphne comes out and her eyes are huge. She doesn’t ask any questions, she just starts taking the orders of the others that are with Fionn.

“My antín is Caitríona Bastianini,” he says to me as he comes around the counter and hugs me.

“We need to talk. It doesn’t have to be right now, but sometime today,” he whispers to me.

“Are you living here in Lake Renegade?”

“Yes, I live on the property and I’m a deputy with the sheriff’s department. Have you met Salvatore?”

I shake my head no.

“This is Sheriff Mancini and his wife, Raven. This is my Riley.”

Salvatore chuckles as he shakes my hand, Raven comes over and hugs me.

“Welcome to the family. It’s so great to meet you. If we had known you were with Fionn, we would’ve planned a dinner. But now that we do know, we’ll definitely plan something.” Raven smiles.

“Thank you,” I say as I smile.

I want to say that Fionn and I aren’t together. But at the same time, I want to be with him.

“Riley’s not with whoever ‘Fionn’ is. She’s my girl,” we hear someone one say from the door.

Fuck me. I look at Daphne and she’s rolling her eyes.

“Who are you?” Fionn asks him.