Here, he thought he might lose me.

And the fact that he had done the right thing anyway — that he had pursued the truth knowing it might cost him the one thing he was most afraid to lose — only proved, one more time, in case the veterans hadn’t, exactly what kind of man I was marrying.

Chapter 10 — What the Nobody Did

Washburn stepped forward, and the thirty veterans held their places along the aisle.

“Miss Vandermeer,” he said.

“Let me tell you what your father called a nobody.”