The Talk of the Town (27 page)

“Don’t,” he said. He trapped her hand within his and kissed it, front and back. “I don’t want to think that you might have loved me then, that I might have escaped all the years of loneliness. I don’t want to think of the might-have-beens. I only want to think about the will-bes in store for us.”

“And the nows,” she added, giving him a kiss.

“And the nows,” he agreed, giving her his heart.

In Loving Memory of

Ruth Catherine McKenzie McCoy

I still miss you, Mom

Copyright © 2011 by Fran Baker

First printing: September 2011 [Five Star]

Electronically published in May 2013 by Delphi Books and Belgrave House

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Table of Contents

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Fran Baker

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13