Seven Days to a Kiss

t just take a guest room; she moved i

my jewelry. She held up a silk dress, one of my favorites, and as

oset, filled with Gabrielle' s things. A few dresses, some sheet

dress and held it against herself. "She had such be

n said, his eyes filled with a tend

, in my sister' s dress, she looked so much like Gabrielle it was

e been snooping. A scratch on his vintage record collection, and she' d look at me with wide, wound

imer. It was already starting to look transparent. I retreated to my music study, the one room Tara hadn't touched ye

d with pictu

en over the years whe

he rain from his office window. Hundreds of photos, a secret history of my unrequited love. Underne

love, a pathetic monume

ay. Just before the ceremo

rger, not a marriage. I'm doing this for our families. Don't ever ma

hest. But I hadn't believed him. I thought I could

refully constructed facade to match his own. I paid actors to be seen with me, to create a

to Ethan. He just never k

door startled m

t unkindly, but with an air of finality. "He thinks i

hat innocent, Gab

you would