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His phone rang and she slipped out

Might make her a dork, but she did a little happy dance in her office A fullti at the Twin Pines After all the years she’d bartended in college and grad school, she’d now have her weekends free

She probably wouldn’t knohat to do with herself

Now you at least have the option of spending tiht’s conversation to the back burner Okay, after she’d stayed up half the night replaying it in her head

What was his end ga it to her? Or to himself?

But the part of her that’d always been crazy about him wanted to believe he’d pined for her these past few years Okay, he hadn’t exactly said he’d pined But he had said he’d thought about her a lot

Why had he been so vague about the business he needed to tie up while he was here? Did he consider her unfinished business he needed to handle?

God Why was she obsessing over this stuff like a teenage girl when she had work to do?

Rory turned one more happy circle before she settled behind her desk

Yes, it was a good day

Chapter Six

On his way back to Sundance, Dalton’s mom called "Hey, Ma"

"Dalton! I’m so happy you’re finally in our neck of the woods"

"What’s up?"

"What are you doing tonight?"

He’d hoped to spend it with Rory, but then he reular job "Nothing Why?"

"Coht with s And I’ll roaned "You win I’ll swing by "

"I can’t wait to see you, son I really missed you Drive safe"

He texted Rory his plans to visit hisaround the night after he swore he’d prove to her he’d changed

Dalton pulled up to his otten out of his truck when she threw herself at hily

When she released him, she scrutinized his beard and whapped him on the chest "If I hadn’t known your truck I would’ve believed so was intoo th Her hair was styled short, in a trendy cut, blond and brown ood portion of her worry lines were gone She looked a decade younger now than she had a decade ago Dalton kissed her cheek and caught a whiff of the perfuuilty his visit was considered a special occasion "You look great I nized you either"

She looped her arot beer or coffee"

"Coffee would be great" He shot her a grin "To go with the cake"

"Which is for dessert," she reminded hiood thing I already cut you a slice, isn’t it?"

While his h the living roo styles growing up--the stuff in their house was just the stuff that’d always been there