Chapter 5

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Five years after a Washington love affair ended in a half-finished goodbye, policy analyst Charlotte comes face to face with Alexander Vance across a crowded reception, and the city that never forgets refuses to let either of them move on. As professional encounters quietly become something else, careful arguments give way to confessions neither of them is ready for, and the anger Charlotte has carried for five years has to find room beside a desire she never managed to extinguish. Over one Washington autumn and winter, two people who were never able to stop arguing, or stop wanting each other, discover whether being chosen the second time can be enough to outweigh not being chosen the first.

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