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Vows & the Vagabond
Karen Wiesner



Copyright 1999, Karen Wiesner
ISBN: 1-58200-113-8

All characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of
the author, and have no relation whatever to anyone bearing the same name
or names. These characters are not even distantly inspired by any
individual known or unknown to the author, and all incidents are pure
invention.






Prologue
More asleep than awake, Lori Gordon fumbled for the shrilling phone.
She heard her roommate grumble "It’s yours." and flop a pillow over her
head.
"‘lo?"
"Hey, Princess."
His voice brought Lori awake instantly. Her head, her body, the
constant ache that always seemed to reside in her heart no matter how she
tried to exorcise it jolted her to consciousness.
Lori sat up, forcing herself to take a deep breath. Calm down; find
out what he wants, then hang up! she commanded herself, already sure she
wouldn’t do any of that.
"It’s four o’clock in the morning," she said, and her roommate
flopped again.
After sliding out from the warmth of her blanket, she started toward
the bathroom.
"Yeah, sorry. I..."
His voice brought tears to her eyes as she closed the bathroom door
behind her and flipped on the soft light over the medicine cabinet.
"...I just needed to hear your voice."
A part of her had known he’d call. She’d warred with wanting him to
and desperately hoping he wouldn’t.
Blackie’s voice was enough to shatter her resolve. Everything she’d
done since she turned nineteen came down to getting over her love for this
man. At first she’d tried to tell herself what she felt amounted to a
stupid crush. As soon as she started dating, she’d known it was more than
that. Every other male she’d met since moving to New York to attend
Parsons School of Design failed to make her forget Blackie. In fact, they
just made her remember him, long for him and cringe at her own tenacity.
"How was the wedding?" she asked.
Their friends Jon Rushing and Tracey Scott had gotten married today.