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straightened her skirt.  Caroline missed the glare the woman sent Kyle.  “It looks like you two might have some unfinished business.  I’ll just wait outside until you’re finished.”
    “Stay right where you are,” Kyle demanded.  Then he turned his attention to Caroline.  “I told the receptionist I wasn’t to be disturbed.  You really are making a nuisance of yourself Caroline.”  The contempt was evident in the chilling tone of his voice.
    Caroline crossed her arms over her chest in an attempt to stop the minor trembling in her body.  She was suddenly chilled to the bone.  She could have just blurted out the news, but found herself defending the receptionist instead.  “It’s not her fault.  I ran past her.  I need to talk to you.”
    Kyle’s gaze turned down right frosty.  Caroline wasn’t able to suppress the shiver that snaked down her spine.  “So you said in several phone messages.  I didn’t return those calls, because as far as I’m concerned there’s nothing more for us to say to each other except goodbye.  Now please leave or I’ll call security and have you escorted out.”
    Caroline couldn’t believe how humiliated she felt.  She saw and hated the pitying looks from both the receptionist and the woman from Kyle’s lap.  In that split second she felt her heart and any dreams of happily-ever-after completely shatter.  One lone sob managed to escape before Caroline fled the room in a dead run.  She ran, taking the stairs instead of waiting for the elevator.  She didn’t stop running until she reached the parking deck and her car. 
    The stitch in her side had turned into an excruciating cramp by the time she was behind the wheel of her car.  She had to fight to catch her breath.  The pain wasn’t going away.  It took her a few minutes to notice the sticky wetness between her thighs.  She looked at her lap and took in the spreading red stain with an odd sense of detachment.  She calmly started the car and drove to the nearest hospital, but she knew it was already too late.

Three
    Four years later.
     
    This was Caroline’s second year teaching in northern Florida.  This year she was wading through the early days of school without her best friend Abigail Montgomery Blake.  Abigail was lucky enough to have married the school superintendent the beginning of the last school year.  Now she volunteered instead of working as an aide at one of the elementary schools. 
    Caroline had been worried about moving and starting over in another state, but after three years in the greater Atlanta area she’d had more than enough of being afraid to go anywhere.  She’d dreaded going anywhere expect work in case she ran into Kyle and her heart broke into even more pieces.  She’d talked to a few coworkers and a friend of a friend of a friend had directed her to northern Florida.  Now after a year she had settled in nicely and even more importantly she’d met Abigail Montgomery her first day on the job last year.  Now she was an unofficial adopted member of the Montgomery family.  And that made all the difference to someone like Caroline who had been orphaned as a young child.  She didn’t even have siblings to help with her loneliness, at least not until she’d met Abigail, Annabel, and Aubrey. 
    Today was the first day back to school for students.  Caroline had been looking forward to their return for the past week and a half.  She loved teaching mostly because of her interactions with the students.  She loved knowing she had a hand in shaping the future of the world!  This year she was teaching honors biology to freshmen.  She was looking forward to the challenge!  She had high hopes that it would be a rewarding year for both her and the students.
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    Caroline stifled a yawn.  The first day of class was always the best, but it was emotionally draining meeting one hundred plus students for the first time.  Caroline loved this part of the school year