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“Like I said, I wanted to give the right signals”

“What do you ive flowers to one wonals”

Zoe looked around the kitchen at the plethora of flowers surrounding her Warhout her insides, but she remained wary “And does the amount of flowers indicate in any way how ht-blue in the fluorescent light and he started toward her “I don’t know, but I bought out the floral departrocery store to be on the safe side I would have bought out the florist too, but they were closed”

“So, what happened tonight?” She backed up a step when he would have touched her “Why did Carlene conals”

The roses “I see I guess you won’t be giving other wo as their affair lasted

He took another step closer, crowding her “Right”

“What set off your sprinkler syste his eyes and focused on the yellow roses in the mason jar on the counter opposite

“I don’t know”

But they could both guess Bud “I’m sorry It’shand to the side of her face, gently turning her head until their gazes met His expression was as serious as a heartbeat “It doesn’treflex short-circuited and she had to concentrate on sucking air into her lungs “Of course it , and I’e”

His thuainst the pulse in her neck “I don’t care”

“But—”

“The only thing I care about is your promise to led

She fought hard to concentrate on what they were saying “I thought you wanted to back off for a while”

“I wanted to protect you It’s an instinct I have a hard tinore it—and anything else that could send you away froeous models from New York?” She couldn’t keep the residual pain from her voice Her refresher course in that emotion was too recent