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“You know I will keep your counsel.”
She drew in a deep breath, relieved.
“I am sorry that Frank wasn’t your father. I know you loved him.”
Her smile was thin. “He was my father. Blood can’t change that.”
“No,” Luke agreed. “It can’t.”
“You were right, you know. Sometimes things really are gray. Especially in this world.”
“They are considerably less gray with you in the world with me,” he said. “Now, I live in the sunshine again.”
She laughed, delighted, as she took his hand, this man she’d come to love beyond all reason. “But don’t ever let me see you in the defendant’s chair again.”
His mouth curved up, his smile reaching his eyes even as his arms pulled her in. “Ah, Sara,” he said, then brushed his lips softly over hers. “I promise, I’ll never let them catch me. You, though,” he added, his tone tugging at her heart, “you, darling Sara, have captured me completely.”
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