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him everything, but for a guy like Aidan Pierce, that was the truth. 
    No matter what other links I checked, that was the only picture I could find, and I sat there staring at it for a long time, trying to reconcile that image with the man I was losing more than my inhibitions to.  He seemed so full of laughter and light.  What had happened to turn him into the brooding control freak, who holed himself up in his house like a hermit? 
    In a sudden burst of insight, I typed in Aidan Pierce+Felice+accident , and I got a hit .   The article was more than ten years old, and there wasn’t much to it. 
    Wealthy socialite, Felice Hallowell was killed in a high-speed car accident late Friday night. A preliminary investigation revealed that Hallowell was driving her Jaguar XK2 convertible, traveling southbound on Old Canyon Road, when it veered off the roadway, and crashed head on into an abandoned barn.  Fiancé, Aidan Pierce heroically pulled her from the vehicle moments before it burst into flames, but Hallowell was pronounced dead at the scene.  Pierce sustained minor injuries in the incident and was taken to the hospital for treatment and later released. The investigation is ongoing, as detectives work to determine what caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle.
    The grainy picture showed a mangled car in the wreckage of the old barn, half consumed with fire, and little else.  So that’s what Mrs. Fisk meant when she said they’d lost Felice.  And Aidan had been right there, pulling her from the wreckage and everything, and she’d died in his arms.  How devastating!  Was that why he’d closed himself off to normal relationships and love? 
    I typed in Felice Hallowell+obituary , and got the link to her obituary. 
    East coast heiress, Felice Hallowell died in a fiery car crash, late last Friday night on a lonely stretch of road, not five miles from her wealthy fiancé, Aidan Pierce’s ancestral home.  Emergency crews were dispatched when the “huge fireball in the sky” was noticed by a neighbor, from Miss Hallowell’s crash into an abandoned barn, and tried to resuscitate her, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. 
    “I’m so excited, I’m planning my honeymoon! Barbados here we come!” the twenty year old socialite was quoted as saying earlier that same day. 
    The coroner’s office will do an autopsy to determine what killed Hallowell, but it was a violent, tragic end for a young woman who lived so much of her life helping others.  The beautiful heiress was very active in her family’s Save the Kids charity, and had traveled all over the globe, championing the needs of the disadvantaged.
    Hallowell’s father was in London on business when he got the devastating news and immediately flew home to be with his grief-stricken family.
    “The Hallowell family asks for privacy during this very difficult time,” a spokesman for the Hallowell empire said.
    Friends and neighbors on the upper east side expressed shock at the sudden death of a young woman who seemingly had it all.
    Family friend, Lorraine Collins, called Felice “a sweet, big-hearted girl.”
    A close friend of Pierce’s said, “It's such a great loss. He loved that girl beyond all else. If he could’ve died in her place, I’m sure he would’ve.”  Pierce’s bravery at the scene of the accident was noted, as he pulled Felice from the car seconds before it exploded, but was unable to revive her. 
    Hallowell is survived by her loving parents, Ada and Marshall, sister Diana, and her fiancé Aidan Pierce, who could not be reached for comment. 
    I stared at the picture of the beautiful heiress, with dark blonde hair, artfully styled in shining waves to frame her exquisite, heart shaped face.  She was so gorgeous, she seemed unreal, like those models you see in magazines that you’re sure have to be photoshopped.  And maybe the picture had been altered, but I didn’t think so.  Besides being stunningly beautiful, there