My mother-in-law offered me $10,000 to walk away from her son at the altar — I accepted the money, but the surprise guest I brought to the ceremony made her scream in front of 200 people.

blazer and clutching a campus map that had turned to pulp in my hands.

Then a green umbrella appeared over my head, and a boy with kind eyes told me I looked like I needed coffee more than directions.

“I’m Ryan,” he said.

“Erica,” I answered, wiping the rain off my chin. “And I’d sell a kidney for coffee right now.”

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