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Because this?

This isn’t just at the winery.

This is how I’ve always felt.

And now I know how right it was to keep her at a distance when Alex was dating her.

Because one taste of Ginny, and I know.

I know I’ll never want anyone else.

Even when she’ll never want me back.

“Family only,” Heath says to me, stopping me from entering the sitting room where Mabel and Pip and Olivia are all looking out the window at the storm.

I swallow hard. “I’m a witness.”

Mabel swings around. “Witness to what?”

Ginny meets her halfway across the room. “I found this envelope of cash in the gift shop.”

“I found the note,” I say.

“What note?” Samantha asks behind me.

Ginny looks past me. “There’s a bunch of cash with a note that saysname a wine after me. It was in an envelope in the gift shop.”

Mabel’s watching me. “You’re not recording this.”

“I’m not recording this,” I agree.

She holds out a hand. “Your phone.”

I surrender it, happy to be agreeable to make a point.

I’m not the bad guy.

I’m not a danger.

Except possibly to myself.

What the actual fuck was I thinking, kissing Ginny?

That you loooooove her, the fucking mosquito in my head says.

Flow whimper-whines and leans into me.

“Start over,” Mabel says. “How’d you find this?”

“Who’s got a blind nip?” Pip asks.

“Find this, Aunt Pip.”

“Find what?” Dori says as she and Cricket and Lavender enter the room too.

The whole gang’s here.

“Ginny found an envelope of cash in the gift shop,” Mabel tells them.