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After Grayson clicked off the phone, he missed Ari more than ever. But at least he didn’t feel so lost. She was quickly becoming his anchor, whether he wanted her to be or not. But that was the way it had been with his father and his mother, too.

Theirs had been an arranged marriage, too, but his father fell so in love with his mother that it physically hurt him to be away from her. She was kind, selfless, and beautiful. But from what his father had told him, she could be ruthless where her family was concerned, becoming a lioness protecting her cubs, her cave, and her lion when needed. In fact, that had been his father’s pet name for his wife... Lioness. But when she died, a part of him had died, too. His parent’s love story had become the stuff made of fairy tales... but without a happily ever after.