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clicked on the floor as she walked to the kitchen. “All set for the open house?”
    “Good enough.” Anna stood and carried her wine to the sliding door, and exited to the balcony. The sun sank close to the mountains, warm on her cheeks and arms as she stared at the trees and listened to the wind whisper through them.
    It didn’t take Poppy long to join her. She’d taken off her shoes and her sweater, and she leaned on the rail like Anna.
    “What’s wrong?” she asked.
    Anna shrugged. “Nothing really.” And everything. The email she’d gotten from Celeste this afternoon still weighed heavy on her mind.
    “I’m calling B.S.”
    Anna sat in one of the colorful wooden chairs, propping her feet on the balcony rail. A few pansies Poppy had planted waved in the soft breeze. “I got an email from Celeste today.”
    Poppy sat in the chair next to hers. “Oh yeah? How’s she doing?”
    Anna sipped her wine. Poppy was her best friend. If she was going to talk to anyone, it had to be her. “Good. She’s loving Paris and her training. There’s a bakery nearby that wants to hire her.”
    “That’s great, right? Why do you look so serious?”
    Anna smiled at her, stalling. “No, it is great.”
    “You miss her?”
    Anna nodded. She did. She’d grown close with her college friend and they’d been there for each other through a lot of ups and downs. But more than that, Anna missed the space. The time to think. The chance to get away from her life here like she had in college. And it was all because of Tom.
    “She said there might be another opening at the bakery,” Anna said.
    Poppy’s hand froze with her wine glass halfway to her mouth. “What are you saying?”
    Anna took another sip for encouragement. “She also said she needed a roommate once her old one moved out.”
    “You’re moving to France?”
    “No. Not–no. I mean, I don’t know. It was an idea. She said I should come visit.”
    “Do you want to?”
    “I don’t know.”
    Poppy slowly sipped her wine, keeping quiet for so long Anna turned to her and asked, “What are you thinking?”
    “I’m thinking…Tom was an ass and we all knew it. I should have said something sooner, but I never thought he’d cheat on you.”
    Anna felt her defenses go up. She didn’t like talking about Tom–especially with her family. “What does this have to do with Celeste and France?”
    “I think you might want to go because of him. To…I don’t know, have a chance to start over or something.”
    Anna couldn’t answer. That was exactly it. She wanted to leave all this behind. Not because she wasn’t over Tom, but because she’d been humiliated in front of her family. And still, day in and day out, she had to plan weddings and watch other people get married, wondering if she was ever going to find the right one for her.
    “Is that why you’ve been sending Beckett to help me so much?” Anna asked quietly.
    Poppy opened her mouth, but nothing came out at first. She looked surprised. No–caught. Like she was guilty of something.
    “That’s it, isn’t it?” Anna continued. “I wondered why you and Jillian–even Beckett–were acting so weird. I don’t want you to feel sorry for me. I’m fine.”
    “No. No, that’s not it at all.” Poppy started laughing, hard enough she had to set her wine down. “Oh, Anna. I’m sorry if that’s what you thought.”
    “Then what is it?”
    Poppy stopped laughing, but her smile still stayed in place. “You’d have to ask Jillian. You know how she always has plans for something or another.”
    “Are you hiding something from me?”
    “Why would I do that?”
    “You sounded guilty.”
    Poppy pressed her lips together and shook her head, mirth still dancing in her eyes. “We know each other too well, don’t we?”
    Anna lifted her wine again and sighed, her gaze drawn to the emerald treetops. “We do.”
    “I understand why you’re thinking about going to France, but I don’t want you to leave