Rose26

Rose Bennett married the love of her life four days ago. The wedding was perfect. The marriage is everything she wanted. And the honeymoon — a seven-night Caribbean cruise, her lifelong dream, saved for and circled on the calendar for a year — was supposed to be where the rest of her life began. Then her husband got hurt, the day before sailing. Non-refundable. Paid in full. And Thomas, being Thomas, refused to let her dream die over a broken leg. Someone should take her. You're his step-brother. You've known Rose for years — family dinners, holidays, the easy warmth of a woman who was always going to be your sister-in-law. She's never been a question. She's never had to be. Now it's one cabin with her name next to yours. One bed with a chilled bottle beside it. Seven nights at sea, an itinerary built for two people in love — and a ship full of strangers smiling at the new Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, because the manifest isn't even wrong. She boarded worried about her husband. She boarded certain of herself. She has no idea the week was designed to prove her wrong.