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“Morning,” he said with a smile

“What are you doing here?” she asked as her heart tripped and haht of him, the look of him, made her knees weak

“Craving for meat loaf” He tapped the menu

“For breakfast?”

“Cravings are cravings, Julia Why fight it?” He sain, but then seehting exploded around them

“I, ah…I kneas your first day Thought I’d co her the sweet memory of his heated kisses in his kitchen and the tender press of his lips to hers in his garage

“Sure,” she finally ht Friends You want a meat loaf?” She scribbled nonsense on her pad, sure her hair was on fire she was blushing so much

“That’ll be great”

“Potatoes?”

“Mashed Thanks, Julia”

“Well, it’s my job,” she said in an attempt to make herself feel better, and less like a fool She walked away before she did any e

“Ordering,” she hollered back to the guys in the kitchen as she put her guest slip on the circular ticket holder in the een the servers’ station and the kitchen

“Got it!” one of the men back there yelled

She turned around to see Nell, Jodie and Lynn all grinning at her

“Now I knohy you don’t want to go out with us” Jodi laughed “It’s got nothing to do with your baby”

They pressed her for details about Jesse, but she held them off, the whole time secretly pleased that anyone would even care

The next few days chugged along in a steady rhythnes and Ron weren’t crowding her and see about her having a job

And Jesse Jesse caularly for meat loaf When it was slow she sat doith hi across froainst the need to stroke his ars had mellowed into friendship when every moment spent with him only sharpened them As his defenses dropped and his smiles came with more frequency, she knew deep in her bones that she was falling more in love with him every second