Night settled over the city. Adrian Hadley closed the last case file and pressed two fingers to the bridge of his nose.

Two years of pressure — and he'd held. He'd come back to Kingsward, taken the reins of Pinnacle Industries Group as fast as humanly possible to ease Aunt Scarlett's burden, and now his next move was marriage. He actually wanted that. Wanted it with Molly Summers.

The problem was that she hadn't caught up yet. They'd kissed like that in the car, and she ...