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Rachel hugged her quickly, balancing a stack of plates on her other aret out of here”

Sabela nodded with a smile, but the joy didn’t oing through the motions

Moving on was taking its toll on her, no matter how much she wanted to say it wasn’t

Still, she refused to live her life with regrets If anything, it was the lesson she took away from her time with Colin Even lessons learned the hard ere valuable in retrospect

She continued on through her shift, mind on hoonderful a bath would be instead of on what she was doing

Unfortunately, her body remembered what it was like to bathe with a certain someone else

Sabela’s ical it had felt being with Colin Her body huether in his bed

He had one, and she ashed out, gray

She shook her head Those types of thoughts weren’t helping her ht her more pain

She needed to forget about Colin Morgan, and Switzerland, and everything she’d done there

She didn’t regret it, but it did her no good to live in the past The past hat had destroyed Colin and turned him into a beast that Sabela couldn’t save

There were just a few minutes left on the clock when Rachel came up to her

“There’s a guy in n that it was closed He’s refusing to order unless you wait on him”

Sabela sighed Was it Mike, Lloyd, or Buttons? All three of them were crotchety old men who refused to be served unless she waited on them

Right now, Sabela wasn’t sure she could tolerate the lecherous flirtation “I’o ho you help him?”

“He gave et you Can’t you take one more order, please?”

Sabela just wanted to go home, but she understood the value of twenty bucks Rachel needed the money badly, and Sabela didn’t want to keep her from a tip like that

“You owe me,” she whispered under her breath as Rachel beamed at her

If it was Buttons sitting there, Sabela was going to give hi he’d left for her last time, and while she kneas a prankster, there was no excuse for being plain rude

But it wasn’t Buttons in Rachel’s section, nor was it Mike or Lloyd

Colin sat there, staring at her

Sabela stopped in her tracks Her heart leaped up into her throat

He stood up and straightened his suit jacket Dressed as sharp as he was, he looked coood way A very good, very hot way

He looked so handsome it hurt her heart

“Jointo the booth

Sabela didn’t knohat to do

Chapter Forty-Eight

EVEN THOUGH HE HAD GOTTEN TO the diner as quickly as he could, Colin had made time to dress the part This would be the most important conversation of his life, so he wore a fine suit, and he had stopped and picked up flowers on the way They were lilies, which he kneere Sabela’s favorite

The bouquet waited for her on the table

While in the car, he called ahead to the diner toHe realized that he was going to arrive right around the time her shift ended

He hadn’t seen her when he entered, but that didn’t deter hienerous tip could fix just about any problem, and it proved to be true on this day

When he saw Sabela round the corner, his ot to speak It wasn’t until she stood at the end of the booth that he found his tongue

Marie was right — he was crazy about Sabela

It was so that felt a lot like love, and a lothe’d experienced with Blanca He’d loved Blanca like a boy loves a girl His feelings for Sabela were those of a man for a woman