He wasn’t exaggerating there. Jesse was the social one between the two of us. I preferred to snuggle under a blanket at home and watch a good movie. Part of that was because I was now on the retreat center’s guest relations team, which meant working around people all day. On my days off, I liked my quiet time.

But I made an exception when it came to our friend group. I loved hanging out with the women from the retreat center and their husbands. We’d become family.

“Daddy!”

Avery was running toward us as fast as her little legs would carry her. She had both hands up, ready for a hug. Her daddy was her hero. And she always looked at him with awe when he wore his football uniform.

Like many of the other kids in this town, Avery would grow up watching these football games every Friday night in the summer. Maybe once they got old enough, the girls would even take over as cheerleaders.

Jesse scooped up our daughter and gave her a big hug, while my hand immediately went to my stomach. I was still in my first trimester, but this cheerleading costume was already a little snug. I’d have to upgrade to a bigger size soon, but I’d keep cheering all the way to the end. That’s what we all did when we were pregnant. We just needed to take breaks when the heat got to be a little too much.

“Daddy, TJ said we were going to his house,” Avery said.

“Yep.” Jesse looked at me. “In fact, we’d better get over there before they eat up all the hamburgers and hotdogs.”

Julian was grilling out, but he’d just headed toward the parking lot with his family, so I doubted very seriously he’d had time to fire up the grill yet. Still, I was all for getting this show on the road, so I grabbed my husband’s hand. I had to stop to say goodbye to my mom, who was heading back to the cabin she and my dad had bought near where I’d met Jesse the first time around.

By the time I turned back to my husband and daughter, Avery was on the ground, holding Jesse’s hand and waiting for me so she could take my hand on the other side. A smile settled over my face as I walked hand in hand with my daughter and husband, the three of us strolling together as a family.

I couldn’t imagine my life if I hadn’t made the decision to move to Rosewood Ridge. I might have never run into Jesse otherwise. He would have just been a memory—someone I’d thought about occasionally with a warm smile.

It had to be fate. How else would we have been brought together not once, but twice? In fact, I was starting to think there was something a little magical about this town in East Tennessee. It seemed every time someone visited, they couldn’t leave without finding love.

And that, to me, made it the most amazing town on Earth.

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