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were the perfect flower girl.”
    “I can keep the basket right?”
    Darcy smiled. “You can.”
    “Rings!” Sam said loudly still perched on Scott’s hip.
    Darcy stood. “And you did wonderful too.” She lifted on her toes to kiss his cheek before extending her hand toward Scott. “I’m Darcy Keller…Oh, doesn’t that sound cool?”
    Ed wrapped his arm around Darcy’s shoulders. “Most perfect name ever.” He kissed her on the cheek and held his hand out to Scott. “Eduardo Keller.”
    “Scott Foster.”
    Victoria looked to Scott’s side and realized that at some point Christian had slipped away. She pressed her hand to her stomach where she was sure a lead ball had dropped.
    They’d pleasantly made it though the rest of the line and she’d introduced Scott to everyone along the way. It had been perfect Keller charm too—not one of them giving her pity or making Scott feel unwelcomed. In fact, if Chris himself didn’t say anything, Scott might never know what the family meant to her at all.
    They walked to the car and strapped the kids into their seats. When Victoria sat in her seat and latched the seat belt, Scott looked at her.
    “It was a nice wedding,” he said starting the engine.
    She closed her eyes and rested her head against the back of the seat. “It sure was.”
    Scott backed out of the parking lot and headed toward the Opryland Hotel. “You’re pretty close with the Kellers, huh?”
    “Yeah,” she said on a sigh.
    “Christian Keller? He was a ball player with your brother-in-law, right?”
    Victoria licked her lips to moisten her mouth. “Uh-huh.”
    Scott reached for her hand and interlaced their fingers. He ran his thumb over hers in the most intimate of gestures and Victoria thought of how sweet they must look—this family dressed in their best, very cozy in Scott’s Lexus.
    She let the tension roll out of her shoulders.
    Scott gave her a glance and then turned his eyes back to the road. “So how long did you and Christian Keller date?”
    The tension was back, but this time it stiffened every muscle in her body. The weight in her stomach was back too and it literally made her sick. She knew she’d tightened the grip she had on Scott’s hand.
    “What makes you think we dated?”
    He chuckled and continued to stroke her hand with his thumb. “The way he complimented your dress without looking at it. The grip he used when shaking my hand. The awkwardness you didn’t have with anyone else. Should I go on?”
    “Please don’t.” She rolled her head to the side to look at him. He was handsome—more rugged than Christian with strong features and a dark completion. He was a natural in a suit—where she’d seen Christian squirm. There was an athletic build under that Armani and she’d seen it. They’d taken the kids swimming at his condo building last week. It had been the first time she’d been in a swim suit in over a year, but he hadn’t looked at the scars that riddled her body. He’d made her feel secure in her own skin.
    Victoria took a breath. “We dated up until about eight months ago.”
    He nodded and guilt plagued her.
    “Okay, we didn’t just date. We were engaged.”
    His thumb stopped moving against hers for a moment “It would have been nice to know I was being thrown into the lion’s den.”
    “I know.” She slouched in her seat. “I’m so sorry.”
    He smiled. “It’s okay. I’m a lawyer, remember. I’m used to the den.”
    “But it wasn’t fair of me to do that to you.”
    “So why aren’t you and the awkward groomsman married?”
    It would be easy to throw Christian under the bus and make Scott hate him, but she didn’t even hate him—though she wanted to.
    “After the accident he just couldn’t wrap his head around the loss and the injuries,” she sighed. “And the kids.”
    “Your injuries?” His voice rose.
    “His.”
    The light turned red and Scott stopped and looked at her. “His injuries? He was in the car with