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TheI’d dreamed rather than experienced "Well, it wasn’t really a for about my job hunt, and he said if I married him, I wouldn’t have to worry about it"

She fluttered her hand against her chest "Be stillheart How did you not swoon and fall at his feet?"

"Shut up!" I scolded her, even as I couldn’t help but grin at her theatrics "I think he was raising the topic Who proposes out of the blue without having discussed anything about e ahead of time? I’m sure the real proposal, when it comes, will be very romantic"

"Yeah, he’ll tell you you’re a failure, but he’s willing to support you"

"That’s not what he"And I have no intention of letting hiht be nice to have the pressure taken off the job hunt and to have o on interviews"

"You’ll get the tih that probably won’t ease the pressure"

"The store’s not going to close," IJosh really be that bad? He was suy Heart-stopping ro that only happened inthewhen time had stood still as I looked into those dark blue eyes and felt like destiny had caught up with me

Contrary to Florence’s fears, nothing h later that week There was ait would be business as usual for the ti up the topic of ain, so I started to think itI should take seriously And thatthroughlull while Florence took a break when a voice said, "Job-hunting?"

I looked up to attend to the custo when I looked into his deep blue eyes Was he the guy from the other coffee shop? I couldn’t even ren if I ooning over every pair of blue eyes that crossed , but I preferred not to think about it "Can I help you?" I asked, dropping the newspaper

"How’s the coffee here?" He rinned and said, "And be honest"

"Well, it’s not really to "

"Burnt?"