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matter-of-factly. “Don’t be angry; it’s just what I see. You just want to find the missing pieces of your life. There is no way easy way to do that. Your mum, on the other hand—” Anne Marie waved her hand in the air and rolled her eyes “—is…special. Just be true to yourself, Sophia. That’s all you can do.”
    Sophia’s face twisted with sadness. “You’re right, of course. You always are.” She gave a hesitant smile. “But these last few years have been the most difficult.”
    Anne Marie slid an arm around her. “You’re the only one she has left, Sophia.”
    Tears pricked the back of Sophia’s eyes at the thought of her younger brother, Connor. “Do you think it would be different if he was alive?” Her voice cracked.
    “Oh, darling.” Anne Marie tugged her close. “You can’t think about that. Connor was taken from this world far too soon, but it didn’t change what your mum always wanted for you. It’s only now he’s gone that she fights harder for it. That’s all.”
    “Yeah. I only wish…” Sophia exhaled roughly. She wished for a lot of things. An understanding mother. To see her brother’s beaming smile. To not feel so constricted in her life. There had to be something in her past—in her forgotten memory—that would help her fill the strange void in her chest that left her so restless and agitated. And unhappy. She was losing the battle to live the life she wanted and didn’t even know what life that was.
    “Wishes can come true, you know,” Anne Marie whispered.
    Sophia laughed. “Only in fairy tales.”
    Her friend’s green eyes twinkled. “Fairy tales are what you make them. No matter what, remember what I said: just be true to yourself, Sophia.”
    Sophia smiled as she moved off the bed and glanced into her closet…and the heaping pile of clothes and shoes cascading from the mound hiding her luggage. “I suppose you’re right. I have certainly made a mess in there whilst I let off steam, haven’t I?”
    “No worries about that now.” Anne Marie scurried to Sophia’s side. “I have a question for you.”
    Sophia gave an uneasy nod.
    “Right. Now, I’m not quite sure what happened with you at the party last night, because when we left you looked a little beside yourself.” Anne Marie paused, and Sophia’s cheeks went hot.
    Everything about the previous night had put Sophia on edge, keeping her tangled the next day. And dreaming about some to-die-for man, who was also probably crazy, at the same time her mother picked away at her future was just not a good combination.
    Anne Marie leveled a stare at Sophia. “Anything you want to mention?”
    Sophia attempted to hide both the embarrassment and excitement on her face. She failed.
    “You snogged him, didn’t you? I knew it; I just knew it. Tell me all about it.”
    Sophia’s cheeks grew even hotter. When had the universe flipped upside down and decided to give Sophia her fantasy man on a platter? Who was he, really? Sophia had been with men before, but no one—absolutely no one—made her feel like he had in such a short amount of time. She chided herself for her forward behavior yet still relished in the way it made her body grow with enticement.
    “I knew it! Was it good?” Anne Marie asked when Sophia didn’t answer.
    Sophia shrugged and paced the room. “It wasn’t like that. Well…it, um…” How could she explain this to her best friend without sounding like a hormone-driven teenager? Goodness, how could she even explain it to herself? “Yes, I kissed him. Well, really, he kissed me.” Sophia couldn’t help the sly smile that crept across her face.
    “And?”
    “I let the kiss go further than I should have.”
    “Did you—”
    “Heavens, no! Oh! I made a bloody mess of myself. I practically threw myself on him once it started, and had I not come back down to reality, it would have been just like that.”
    “Really? The kiss was that good?”
    Sophia nodded, still ashamed and yet oddly