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“Doesn’t look like we’re at the right place Let me double-check the address” Phoebe opened the newspaper

A woman came around the corner of the house

Ryan stepped out of the truck “Excuse me, ma’am, but is this the place where the yard sale is?” he asked

“Yes, but it has been over for an hour We’ve put everything away”

Phoebe joined the for a chest of drawers for my baby’s room”

“I’m sorry but we had very little furniture and e did have is all gone”

Ryan looked at Phoebe He hated seeing that defeated look on her face “We’ll just have to try again on another weekend”

They were on their way back to the truck when the woman called, “Hey, I do have a chest of drawers out in the old so It was h”

Ryan looked at Phoebe “I could fix those things It wouldn’t hurt to look”

Phoebe shrugged “I guess so”

She didn’t sound too confident He gave her an encouraging sht be in for a surprise”

He certainly knew about them Phoebe had been one of those in his life

“It’s back this way” The wo that looked ready to fall down and opened a door

Ryan looked into the dark space All types of far and small, was crammed into it

“You’re gonna have to et to it,” the woman said from behind him

Glancing back over the woman’s shoulder to where Phoebe stood, he saw her look of anticipation Not wanting to disappoint her, he didn’t have any choice but to startimplements He definitely didn’t want her to do that

Picking up things and shifting theainst a wall In the diht height His heart beat faster Itfor

Hebetween a stack of boxes and a tall piece of far the chest away from the wall, he leaned it forward to look at the back

“Doesn’t it look perfect? It’s just right”

His head jerked toward the voice “Phoebe! What’re you doing back here?” He shouldn’t have been surprised She ularly

“I wanted to see”

“You should have waited until I brought it out”

“What if you had done all that work and I wasn’t interested? I didn’t have any proble back here, except for between the boxes and that piece of equiper than you”

He eased the cabinet back against the wall “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“You’re no little guy, with your broad shoulders and height”

He wasn’t and he liked that she had noticed

She circled around hiet a closer look at the chest She pulled each drawer out and exa draent “What do you think?”

“What?” Ryan was so absorbed atching her he’d missed her question

“What do you think?” she asked in an impatient tone “Can it be fixed?”

“Yes It has sturdy construction With a neer and a leg you would be in business”

She looked at hirinned Had he just been punched in the stomach?

“In business?”

“What kind of business would that be?”

“The baby business,” he quipped back

“I think I’ll like that kind of business” Her smile was of pure happiness

He returned it “And I think you’ll be good at it So do you want the chest?”

“Yes, I do”

For a second there he wanted her to say that about hiht away Those were not ones he should be having He and Phoebe were just friends That was all they could be or should be

“If you’ll slide your way back out, then I’ll bring this”

“I could help—”

Ryan leaned down until his nose almost touched hers “No You Will Not”