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Erik clapped him on the shoulder and clie I’ll call you e get there”

“Drive safe,” Layton said, waving

The snow started to drift lazily fro into tiny wet spots on his face alood tiain Layton turned on his heel and returned to the house, where Alexis was already up and hopping around the kitchen

“What are you doing?”

“Nothing What are you doing?”

“Preventing you fro it What happened to the movie marathon?”

“There’s plenty of time for that I want to make some kettle corn Want some?”

Kettle corn How did she knoas his weakness? “You kno to make it?”

“I sure hope so, otherwise I’”

He chuckled “Okay, wiseass, as etting off that foot I told you I didn’t think it was broken, but it’s certainly sprained and you need to elevate it with some ice”

Alexis scowled, but he didn’t give her a chance to argue and si her into stunned silence as he carried her to the living room He deposited her on the sofa and then put a pillow under her foot “You sit here while I get the ice”

“Is now the appropriate tiht and that I don’t sit still well?”

“I already had that figured out”

“Story of my life I’ve never been able to just sit around Once I had the chicken pox and I drove , which then est teeks of her life”

Alexis’s story was telling He held no illusions that Alexis would be an easy patient, but there was so about her that drew hiht to keep his distance Maybe it was the memory of those dream kisses or maybe it was the memory of that near-perfect ass Ha! Neither er than a heartbeat

He returned with an icepack wrapped in a towel and gently draped it on Alexis’s ankle “That ought to help, but you really have to keep off your foot if you want it to heal”