I wasn’t surprised by Derek’s question and had no reason to deny, I nodded. “Yeah.”

Derek glanced at the cake and then his gaze shifted upward as he studied me with a hint of scrutiny in his eyes. “Did you grow up in River City?”

I paused for a moment and then I remembered that he was still on the hunt for his lost fiancée. Whenever he found someone with the slightest similarity with her, he would probably want to dig deeper.

I admired his persistence but as ...