MARI

"Ready for your last act as the future Mrs. Kensington?" Pierce asked with a smile on his face as we stopped outside the front door of the real estate title company where he would sign the papers to complete the purchase of the bed-and-breakfast.

Our meeting took almost three hours the evening before, and halfway through we called in Oliver for his opinion. He brought Chinese takeout with him. Pierce had a wonderful business brain, and between the three of us, ...