text: He loves running his family pub and the expansion into brewing is his contribution to the family legacy. But he hates seeing sad women in his pub, so he flirts, charms smiles out the unhappy ones, and his Irish accent might be a little stronger as he teaches them a jig. Sad women remind him of the terrible mistake he made.
  When Nicole walks in, pain radiates off her. He tries to coax a smile and even gets her to dance.
  NICOLE
  Eight months ago her world went up in flames. Once she was a dancer and a mother. Then her husband and daughter died in a fiery crash. Now she’s a mother without a child and a ballerina who cannot dance. Grief and guilt crush her. She retraces her daughter’s and philandering husband’s last day. Her final stop—O’Dair’s Pub. Her his husband had been drinking with another woman before Nicole called and begged him to pick up their daughter.