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gotten herself into something illegal that she had been afraid to tell him? What if her accident hadn’t been an accident after all?
    And even worse, what if the person she was trying to get away from was Ash?
    She realized just how ridiculous that sounded and that she was letting her imagination run away from her. She’d seen the photos; they were obviously very happy together. She was sure that the expression she’d mistaken for anger when he’d first entered her room was just his reaction to learning that she didn’t remember him. After all, how would she feel if the man she had planned to spend the rest of her life with forgot who she was? Then insisted that she supply proof of their relationship? That would be devastating.
    There were other things that disturbed her, as well. It seemed as though the news that she was in law school would evoke some sort of emotion. If not excitement, then maybe mild curiosity. Instead she’d just felt…disconnected. As though he were talking about another woman’s life. One she had little interest in. And in a way maybe she was.
    She was sure that once she got home and back into a regular routine, things would come back to her. She would be more interested in things like her career and herhobbies. If she had any hobbies. She hadn’t even thought to ask him. There were all sorts of things he could tell her about her life.
    She heard footsteps in the hall, her spirits lifting when she thought it might be Ash, but it was only the nurse.
    “I see you’re awake,” she said with her usual cheery disposition. “How are you feeling?”
    “Better,” she said, and it was true. She still had a million questions, but at least now she knew that when she was discharged from the hospital, she would have somewhere to go. There was someone out there who loved and cared about her.
    “I saw your fiancé,” the nurse said as she checked Melody’s IV. “He’s very handsome. But that just stands to reason, I guess.”
    “Why?”
    “Well, because you’re so pretty.”
    “I am?”
    The nurse laughed. “Well, of course you are.”
    She made it sound so obvious, but when Melody had seen her reflection the other day, the only thing she noticed was that a stranger’s eyes stared back at her. She didn’t stop to consider whether she was attractive. It just didn’t seem important at the time.
    “I hear that you’re in law school,” the nurse said, jotting something down on Melody’s chart. “I never would have guessed.”
    “Why is that?”
    She shrugged. “Oh, I don’t know. I guess you just don’t seem the type. I think of lawyers as pushy and overbearing. You’re not like that at all.”
    She wondered what she was like, but she was a little afraid to ask.
    The nurse closed her chart and asked, “Is there anything you need?”
    She shook her head.
    “Okay, well, you ring if you need me.”
    When she was gone Melody considered what she said. What if she really wasn’t cut out to be a lawyer? Would she be throwing all those years of school down the toilet?
    But honestly, what did the nurse know of her? She was not going to plan the rest of her life around a comment made by someone who had known her for less than three days. And not at her best, obviously. Maybe when she was back on her feet and feeling like her old self she would be lawyer material again. A real shark.
    Or, as she had considered earlier, maybe the accident had changed her.
    There was really no point in worrying about it now. Like the doctor said, she needed to concentrate on healing. It was sage advice, because the sooner she got back to her life, the sooner she would get her memory back. And in the meantime she was sure, with a fiancé like Ash to take care of her, everything was going to be okay.
     
    Ash stood in the impound lot at the Abilene police station, heart in the pit of his stomach, knees weak, looking at what was left of Melody’s Audi Roadster. Suddenly he understood why everyone kept saying that