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“Mornin’, Ms Linda”

Vicki barely refrained fro her eyes He really laid the drawl on with a trohenever he spoke with Linda He had to kno it affected the woer flushed down to her roots, and tripped over her words whenever Tyler went all extra Texan on her

It was e to witness

“M- with her shoulder-length blonde hair “Hoas your weekend?”

“Slower than my mama’s homemade blackstrap molasses, ma’am”

Oh, come on This time Vicki did roll her eyes

“Morning, Linda,” she greeted the other woman

“Hi, Vic”

“Hoas Jake’s birthday?” Vicki asked, referring to the woman’s three-year-old son

“Sweet Danny and I took him to the zoo He loved the noise and colors He especially loved the chilad he’s only three and not old enough to ask any aard questions about the two chi front and center of the compound”

Vicki’s eyes widened “No”

“Yes! It was hilarious They just went right at it Danny, of course, thought it was brilliant and fil,” She facepalmed and spoke into her hand “That man can be so juvenile sometimes”

“To be fair, I would probably have done the saain And Linda dropped her hand to stare at him

“Seriously?”

“Yes’rin that did stupid flip floppy things to Vicki’s stomach

He rarely smiled And never directly at Vicki That was probably why she’d never previously noted the shallow vertical indents in his lean cheeks She couldn’t recall ever finding masculine dimples sexy before this very ed di her feel a little weak-kneed

Of course, the rare personal co what his friends were like and what he spoke to the notes about their problees? Because she was almost certain Tyler would have had a mouthful to say about her in the past

If not the present…Saturday night hadn’t exactly been a shininga beer with his buddies so them all about how he’d had to carry her to the car and put her to bed