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Still, Owen was filled will misgivings.

She dragged her feet on her way back into the wand.

She paused at the door

"Jason, we need to talk about the wedding reception. It's less than a month away."

Her parting words successfully elicited a response from Kia, whose head snapped up. "You..you're getting married? With with her?"

The sight of the woman's tears sent a sharp pang through Austyn's heart,

He shook off that strange, unfamiliar feeling and nodded.

owen and I have been engaged for a while now, it's time to make it official.

Kira looked down and seemed to have just noticed the engagement ring on his left hand.

She blinked several times.

The ring was still there.

"You really don't remember who I am?' Kina stared up at him.

Austynno, jason-shook his head. 'Nope. Sony."

Kira refused to give up. 'No recollection at all?!

Kira's voice shook "What.. what happened to you?"

Austyn parsed his lips.

After a long moment of silence, he said, "I don't remember anything about my past.

What?

His words were no less shocking then the news of his upcoming nuptials.

"You lost your memory?"

In the past four years, Loca, Jesse and Damians had not given up on the search for Austyn.

After the official search was called off, they'd meet up sometimes and speculate on his whereabouts.

They presented the best-case scenarios and the worst-case scenarios.

Luca, hardened by his experience as a police officer, was the first one to mention the possibility of death.

Tf Austyn was still alive, he argued, he would have returned to Stamford by now, or at least he would have contacted them

Kira didn't low how to refute Laca's logic, but neither did she agree with him.

She still held out hope.

Just like that saying 'Nobody, no crime, if there wasn't a body, she refused to believe Austyn was dead.

Now, it all made sense.

Austyni was alive, but he hadn't returned to Stanford because he'd lost his memory.

Kira was overwhelmed by that discovery

If he didn't recognise her, how was she supposed to bring him home?

She sank to her lowes and sobbed.

Austyn looked at the woman who was crying in public like a child.

She seemed cushed when he said he didn't recognise her.

Somehow, seeing her like this produced a dull ache in his heart.

He almost reached out a hand to comfort her, but he caught himself:

What was he doing?

He never thought of himself as the type to be easily swayed by a woman's tears.

Yet, he couldn't help feeling her pain vicariously

Her tears made him guilty, as if he was the one to blame.

Austyn cleared his throat and looked away.

He waited for the woman's crying to subside into snivelling before asking, 'Miss, are we acquainted?"

Kira wiped away her tears and looked up at him with red-rimmed eyes.

The question cut her to the quick

They weren't just acquaintances.

They were so much more.

She got up slowly.

When she swayed on her feet, Austyn almost shot out an arm to steady her.

Kira fixed her gaze on his face.

'I'm your wife.'

Anstyn's eyes widened slightly.

"Looks like you've forgotten about that, too. 'Kira was crestfallen.

Austyn knitted his brows.

"I don't recall anything about my past more than four years ago."

He scrutinised Kira's face.

She didn't look like she was lying.

Her sadness seemed gemine.

"Are we really.husband and wife?"Material © of .

"Can you prove that?'

Kira's mouth hung open

Proof?

Austin's eyes came to rest on Kira's hands.

She had smell, delicate hands

Her nails were neatly trimmed,

And she wasn't wearing a sing

Kira followed his line of sight and understood his unspoken question "We didn't. We don't how wedding rings "Austyn raised an eyebrow

What land of couple got manied without rings?

Kiracked her mind for prost

There was the marriage certificate, of cou

But Kai handled that five years ago.

The certificate was either with him or with Austyn, who must have kept it somewhere in a safe.

In fact, Pera had new

neverant eyes on the certificate.

"Looks like you are able to produce any proof, Austyn said.

"Well, I don't have the pool with me right now. You just need to give me."

Kira whipped out her phone, ready to call Hai.

"Never mind. "Austyn stopped hem. Let ser that mide for now. It seems that you know Owen as well. How did the two of you meet?! åra stared at him, feeling both hurt and angry at the same time. She had been looking for him for four years

She was happy that he was afe and sound

Yet, she couldn't help but feel that stab of jealousy when he called another woman's name to intimately,

She had not forgotten about the kiss he gave Gwen whembered the ward

They were engaged and soon to be memed, while she was cast aside like an irrelevant stranger.

the was mi about to lose him again.

toucan't marry ferr. You would be coming bigat and youre's no pason you are Aya Maby!" Wenty McGathy. He repeated that name on bomuld

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