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NIALL LISTENED TO the exchange of wedding vows and couldn’t help but think of Laila. They’d known each other for so long, and she was his wife, his friend, his lover. He was the type of man who needed only one woman. He missed her, and knew he always would.
But something had shifted in him in Kauai. He’d felt Laila’s presence there when he first arrived, but after the evening he and Kaitlin had spent with Eli, her spirit seemed to have vanished. Had she left him for good? He missed talking and singing to her, though maybe she had to continue on her journey, and he on his.
Shane and Lizzie were exchanging their marriage vows. Shane was a good guy, and Lizzie was a lovely young woman, who looked stunning today in a magnificent dress of antique lace. Niall had been noticing women’s fash
