Marrying the Manhattan Millionaire. Jackie Braun

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      “I have bad news,” she began and started to cry.

      “You’re staying in Manhattan, aren’t you?”

      “Yes. I have to. Sonya—”

      “I knew it, Sam,” Michael said before she could tell him about the unexpected aneurism that had burst in Sonya’s brain and the doctors’ subsequent grim prognosis.

      “Please, listen,” she cried. “You don’t understand.”

      “I don’t understand what? That you’ve decided our wedding isn’t going to happen after all. I think I figured that out on my own.”

      “No. I love you, Michael. I was hoping you would come back to New York,” she said. “You’ll have no trouble finding a job here. We can still get married.”

      “Why would I move back, Sam? You’ve made it pretty clear where I fall on your list of priorities. You’ve picked trying to please your father over having a life with me.”

      She sank down on the bed they hadn’t shared since his last trip to Manhattan more than a month earlier. Even then, things had been strained. “That isn’t fair.”