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Quinn there.

Dallas reached across the table and took Quinn’s hand.

She left it there, their palms pressed up against each other.

Quinn wondered if their life lines were touching. She knew

nothing about any of that, but at the moment, that’s what she

was thinking. She wondered what her life line said. That was

the major one, wasn’t it? What did Dallas’ say? If they’d had

their palms read years ago, could whoever was doing it have

predicted this for them? If someone read it now, what would

they say?

They’d say something amazing. They’d say that hardly

anything lasts anymore, but this will. They’d say something

about destiny.

Quinn clung to those thoughts. Those hopes. Those

dreams that she’d once thought were over forever.

Danica had asked her if she was still in love with

Dallas. Quinn hadn’t really known how to answer that. Her

first instinct was to laugh it off or scoff at her sister or correct

her. Say something about love taking a lifetime to mature.

About how she couldn’t know after just a few days with Dallas

and one heck of an uncertain future coming up. She thought

about those lifelines again. She was pretty sure that if she did

get her palm read at any time- when they were best friends,

when they started dating, at any point in those years after

Dallas was gone, or right now, it would say the same thing.

That Quinn Smyth loved Dallas Tenison.

Chapter 23

Dallas

Saying goodbye to Quinn was probably the hardest thing

that Dallas had ever done. It was even harder than the first