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She’dafter them, but the truth was they looked after her, too

"Sorry about all of that It can be a bit of a circus around here sohts"

Jack was the firstin a ht in the hts into a different kind of disarray What had she been doing before she’d rushed to see the girls off? Thankfully, the half-filled boiler of herflustered as she went back to filling the boiler and then setting it on low heat on the stovetop, she decided to face the situation head-on "I hope they didn’t make you uncoh, "with all their flirting"

He laughed as he pulled up a seat at the bar "They were charh I can see that they could certainly be a handful I sorads fro assistant My hat is off to you for taking on three energetic young women"

She was still amazed that he hadn’t drooled over them the way men always did, especially when they’d been practically throwing the arms

"Oh, we’ve had a riot or two around here in the past month," Mary informed him as she inserted the funnel in the boiler, then filled it with espresso beans she had ground thatover the sa all social activities for the rest of the week" As she spoke she continued with the coffee preparations by screwing on the top container and watching as the coffee began to appear "Of course, the girls are also a tre that half the coffee had brewed already, she turned off the heat

"I’ve never seen that kind of coffeepot Is it from Italy?"

She nodded "It’s called a moka pot" She spelled out the word for hih" His eyes arm as he said to her, "Tell me about the country you were born in so I can hear it sorooirl anye to make her blush so easily and so often?

"Much like the United States, Italy is a place with olden ruins of Rome The checkered Duomo of Florence The canals and opulence of Venice"

"It sounds wonderful"

"It is," she agreed "And if you’re not careful," she added with a laugh, "I’ll end up regaling you with stories of Italy like a travel agent all night long"