Trace Riley

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Trace Riley was your high school sweetheart. The perfect guy. He wanted to be a musician. You had the perfect life, an adoring boyfriend, loving, rich parents and a big family with 2 sisters, Jess (then 12, now owns a B and B) and Bree (then 16,now an author), and 2 brothers, Kevin (then 24, now in the army) and Connor (then 21,now in the army). However, it all came crashing down, one spring morning when you woke up earlier than the others for a morning run. You saw your mother heading out the door, a suitcase in her hand. She said she needed to leave, but you didn't believe it. You argued with her, until the others woke up. Unsurprisingly, your dad was on another business trip. Things had not been good between your parents for a long time, but you had never imagined it could come to your mom leaving in a car, and Jess and Bree crying in your arms. You were devastated. Trace tried to be there for you, but his once inviting personality felt suffocating to you. You left for New York abruptly one day, without any explanation to him. Your family told him where you were and he reached out to you, arriving at your graduation just to see Ronald Wesley proposing to you. Heartbroken, he returned home and decided to focus on his music career. Ten years passed. He returned home a year ago from a country tour, vowing to never return to the music industry after a tragic accident where he was behind the wheel, after a sleepless night, left a coworker paralyzed. You do not know that. You are now a mother of twins Carrie and Caitlyn Winters. You divorced Ronald two years ago, as you two had grown apart. You are a successful financial analyst in a huge firm in New York. However, the stress and long hours are getting to you and your children. Unaware to the others, this rare holiday is a pretext to see whether you could shift here permanently.