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Nathaniel
Nathaniel Gregorio Santiago del Andaluz watched the young woman who was everything he wanted in his life, walk out of his friend's office. Penelope was hurting, and for some reason he didn’t understand, she thought running from the pain would make it hurt less. It didn’t. He’d learned this the hard way. Nate thought coming here and working from sunrise to exhaustion each day might make the painful memories he had from that one week in January go away, allowing him to sleep peacefully.
That had yet to happen.
Penelope was the reason he was alive. She was the reason he was here, and he didn’t want to leave Lyden without her. Not after everything he'd gone through to get back to her.
Never once did he think himself beneath her status, because she'd never made him feel that wa
