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Chapter One
The ray eyes was back for breakfast It was FridayTeresa’s first week on the job in the Rainbow Café Still she hadn’t gotten any more comfortable with him On each occasion he had been reasonably well behaved, but there was so about him that made her nervous
He flirted with her—not overtly, but with an underlying i her What was it he found a and superior types who thought everyone else was slightly beneath his intellectual level, especially a waitress in a small-town diner? He looked the type, she decided, then chided herself for ments about a man she didn’t even know
“What can I get you this ?” she asked him
She had never seen him open the menu, but he always had his order ready when she asked “Denver omelette with a side order of salsa And coffee Black”
“Biscuits or toast?”
“Toast Has anyone ever mentioned that you look a bit like Grace Kelly?”
“Oh, sure I get compared to dead movie-star princesses all the time,” she answered airily She’d decided the first ti people with off-the-wall comments, and she’d quickly decided that the best way to respond was in kind and without uy didn’t need any encourageht back with your coffee”
She made another couple of stops on the return trip with the coffee carafe Two elderly gentle for breakfast, flirted outrageously with her when she refilled their coffee cups She deflected their teasing easily, coray-eyedher from the back table
Though h, there’d been a feere rude, one or those innuendos went a little over the line, even a couple ere downright obnoxious Having worked as a waitress before, she handled them all skillfully The man who’d introduced himself to her only as Riley didn’t fit any of those descriptions He just made her…nervous
“You aren’t letting those guys turn your head with their flattery, are you?” he asked when she approached his table again to fill his cup “Old Ernie thinks he’s a real Romeo He’s probably proposed to you two or three times already”
She poured his coffee and answered blandly, “They seem quite nice”
It appeared to her that his sain “Do you say that about everyone you serve here?”