Ashley POV

My heart was jumping up and down irregularly. There was hope refreshing my sense of hearing, and I beamed at him. "Really?"

Jayden nodded slowly, once. He still looks incredulous, but a glimmer of memory beckons in his big caramel brown eyes. "Yes," he replied.

"What do you remember?" I asked cautiously. "And how?"

All of a sudden I realized that had he remembered anything about my engagement to him, I would have faced a huge new mess that I had no idea how to handle. Before, I hadn't considered the time I spontaneously lied to him about the meaning of the ring, given how it had mercifully...