Chapter 127

Which meant he was perfect for Michelle.

Which meant the only thing Candace would accomplish by staying was to get in the way of her sister’s happiness.

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“Where are you taking me?”

Michelle followed Nick down the Street in the Third Ward, an area of old factories and warehouses reclaimed and reinvented as shops, theaters and restaurants. They’d passed the galleries and funky furniture stores, and were headed, as far as she could tell, for the Quinley River. Just before they reached the bridge, Nick stopped in front of one last small building on the west side of the street which housed a wig shop.

“You’re buying Emma a wig for her birthday?”

He gave her a look and opened a door to the left of the store which led into the foyer for the building’s upstairs residents.

“I thought we were shopping.”

“We are.”

“In someone’s apartment?”

“Why not?”

Her frown turned into surprise when he pulled a key from his pocket and unl