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"Is youraround?" Mrs Myers asked "I lost track of her after …" The woman trailed off and her face filled with syently

There Lily stood in a dress and Uggs and crazy hair, with Aidan probably watching this entire debacle, and Mrs Myers wanted to casually discuss the singleincident that had ever happened to Lily

Over aon to with her chin And those Cheetos stains weren’t going anywhere …

Thankfully, Mrs Myers’s cell phone rang, and she got busy searching for it in a purse the size of Texas

Lily let out a breath and stole a quick peek at Aidan, nearly collapsing in relief because he didn’t appear to see her

Miracles did happen …

Before her luck could run out, she said a quick "Nice to see you" and hightailed it to the door

Chapter 3

Lily Danville was most definitely back in town Because he couldn’t help hi an ared

Clearly she was trying to avoid hiet behind He had no desire to take a walk down Memory Road either, especially when that road had ended in a spectacular crash with no survivors

Just the walking dead

Still, after all these years she looked the sah at the same time It was that y, curvy body coupled with those drown-in-reen eyes that she so carefully didn’t turn his way

She alot away, too, and then neither of them would have had to face each other, but soht into a five-foot postcard display of the Colorado Rockies

The entire thing began to wobble

With a gasped "Oh, no!" Lily reached out for it, sacrificing her bag of chips to do so The bag hit the floor and then a package of donuts slipped out of her ar next to the chips

And that was it The doh the cherry pie went next

The very last thing to go was the postcard display itself, falling over with dra postcards and Lily’s ar there, a junk food massacre at her feet

"Damn," Cliff said "That always happens"

"I’an to scoop up the postcards

"No worries," Cliff assured her "Seriously, I’ll get it"

Very carefully not looking at the line where Aidan stood, she shot Cliff a grateful smile and vanished so fast that Aidan had hi Except the postcards sprawled across the floor said otherwise