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choked on his words. First her house, then the dog, and now her teddy, the very teddy that Josh had given her. After spending time with Josh today, she knew now that she had to see him again before she married. If she wasn’t ready to part with her teddy bear, perhaps she wasn’t ready to part with Josh either.
    Richard went to the bathroom as she rushed upstairs to get her laptop.
    “ Goodnight, Chloe,” he yelled from downstairs.
    By the time she came down, Richard was gone and Greta was barking loudly.
    She shook her head. How can he leave without even a kiss? Mom and I seem to have something in common. Maybe seeing Josh again was a sign that history shouldn’t repeat itself. “Or maybe I’m just getting cold feet.”
    She growled in frustration, and then decided to focus on finding out more about Ignacio. She Googled the name Ignacio Rodriguez into her laptop. Perhaps she could locate him on the web. She soon found one, a University Professor at Princeton, and another one, a guitarist from Uruguay. She found a third person – an architect in Argentina, but he was quite young. She let out a sigh realizing how difficult this could be. This guy has to be close to Mom’s age – around sixty or older. She stayed up all night, searching and asking herself what would it take to be given a second chance?
    She was so engrossed that it took a minute before she realized her phone was ringing. Josh.
     

 
     
     
     
    Chapter Four
     
    Chloe woke up that morning with a loud knock on her front door. She had fallen asleep in front of her computer after talking to Josh into the wee hours of the morning. Greta was barking loudly, and running up and down the stairs. Who could that be?
    She had never expected Josh to call her, yet one phone call had proved how great a listener he was. They had talked about everything—from when he left for Oregon and what he’d been up to ever since. She even told him about the letters and, unlike Richard, Josh was eager to know more. She was convinced that he was the same Josh she had fallen in love with thirteen years ago. Now, more than ever, she was determined to see him again, to see if her feelings were still there.
    She put on her robe, tied her hair and hurriedly brushed her teeth. She couldn’t get over what Josh told her on the phone.
    “ Chloe, I was so amped to see you again,” he told her.
    She felt the same. Then he told her he would stop by her shop. She hoped it would be sooner rather than later.
    But it wasn’t just about seeing him again; it was what he said that left her breathless.
    In his very sexy voice, the one that had sent shivers down her spine as a young teen, Josh said, “At the airport, when I was twelve and we were getting ready to leave Half Moon Bay for Oregon, I told my mom that I needed to go to the bathroom. I stayed there forever with my feet up so she couldn’t find me. We almost missed our flight because of me.”
    “ You did?” she said, picturing the young Josh, pining away for her. If only she’d known.
    “ Later that evening, my mom came to my room to talk to me. I told her, well … how much it hurt to leave you behind.” Was that vulnerability she heard in his voice? Her skin tingled at the memory.
    She was silent as he poured out his feelings. “And what did your mother say?”
    He paused, as though embarrassed. “My mom told me if you love somebody that much, then you need to let her go. If she comes back then she’s yours, and if she doesn’t … well, it was never meant to be. At the time I didn’t know exactly what that meant. So here I am, back in Half Moon Bay. I found it strange that the first person I bumped into was you. Fate, don’t you think?”
    Fate.
    Just then she heard another pound on the door. She was so caught up in the memory that everything else had faded away, like it always did when she was around Josh. She ran downstairs to open the door.
    “ Good morning, Chloe, I’m Barbara Johnson from Zip Realty, and