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“Some Enchanted Evening” began to play, Breezy smiled, bowed her head and cried yet again. Sadness overwhelmed her and she hugged herself against the cold. Even though it was no longer cold in the house, she felt cold on the inside.
    Listening to the beautiful lyrics, she realized why she was crying. Yes, there was more than one way to be lonely. When her whole family had died, she’d missed them terribly. She missed them even now. She’d been lonely for a long time, but this was a different kind of loneliness. For years, she’d struggled to gain all that she now had. She’d even thought she was happy. After all, she had lots of friends, owned her own business, her own car and her house. Basically, she had no worries. She wasn’t wealthy by any means, but she didn’t have to worry about paying the bills or buying food and clothing. She guessed she could say she was comfortable. She wasn’t in debt and wouldn’t allow herself to be indebted to anyone for anything. She had everything she’d ever wanted, or so she’d thought. The truth was, she’d been lying to herself all these years. As the song played on, the tears continued to fall. For the past nine years, she’d lived her life not realizing until this moment just how completely and totally alone she’d been.
    Somewhere out there was a man who wanted to be her friend. By the sound of it, he might just need a friend, himself. Out there was a man who’d saved her life, unknowingly giving her a second chance to take all that was wrong with her life and make it right. She intended to do just that.
    Even though he’d saved her life, he was thanking her, for what she didn’t know. She should be thanking him. She should be sending him flowers and gifts but, as it turned out, she hadn’t even spoken to him or gotten the chance to say thank you. Instead, she’d criticized him and accused him of things she had no proof of. He’d been kind and she’d been hateful.
    She vowed that moment to do everything in her power to find him and thank him for everything he’d done for her. But, what if I can’t find him…what then? she thought. Somehow, that didn’t matter because she just knew that someday they would meet again. After all, a person’s own guardian angel could never be too far away.
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    The man was on his private plane heading for home. He’d have to stay there for a couple of weeks to get everything ready for the new project. Then he could finally go back and get to know a certain Miss Brittany Spring.
    Patrick laid his head back on the seat, closed his eyes and smiled. He was thinking of Liam, his secretary, Marie, and of all the people who’d dubbed him, “The Heartless Lion.” If they could only see him now! If they could have seen the way he’d been acting for the past two days, they would have sworn he’d been abducted and replaced by an alien. Or perhaps they would have thought he’d tripped into “The Twilight Zone.” Either way, they wouldn’t have believed it.
    He wondered what Breezy had thought when she received the gifts he’d sent to her this afternoon. Had she been pleased, flattered, embarrassed? Had it been too presumptuous of him to have her car repaired for her? Would she appreciate it or would she be angry? How would she react when she heard the songs he’d dedicated to her on the radio? Had he gone too far? It was killing him not to know. He’d never felt more confused and uncertain in his life. They’d be on the air soon , he thought.
    Patrick opened his eyes and looked out the window, noticing the moon and stars for the first time in years. He hadn’t noticed them since… Oh, well. That didn’t matter anymore. He noticed them now, and a million other tiny things he’d been taking for granted. Was Brittany looking out on this same moon tonight, the Harvest Moon? He just couldn’t seem to get her off his mind. There was just something so special about her. Even though the only word she’d ever said to him was