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Chapter Ten

Friday passed in a haze, and Saturday wasn’t much better Vicki felt like a zo on a coherent conversation for very long Linda and Josh kept giving her concerned glances Thankfully, she hadn’t seen h since The Incident in the elevator with Ty She’d spoken briefly with Bella about Teddy—who craziness with Ty Fortunately Bella had been too distracted ork to notice anything amiss with Vicki

She finished up her last order of the day, waved goodbye to Linda and Josh, and left Chance to close up the shop behind the Australian ambled to the back of the store to watch her work She had promised to deliver the flowers, two dozen delicate posies for a baby shower, to the venue by five-thirty, and she had about three hours to finish the re twelve

“They’re pretty,” Chance observed He crunched into an apple and he leaned against the workbench

“They’re a pain in the buet them as identical as possible” The posies consisted of pale pink rosebuds, blue nigella, baby’s breath, along with a fern leaf for soanza ribbon Because Vicki was such a perfectionist, the ribbons had to be uniforth, with the flowers as identical in size and shape as possible Linda had prepped everything she’d need beforehand and all that was left was asseays

“Need some help?” he asked Vicki liked Chance; he was very different fro and in perfect shape—but Chance had an openness to hi He smiled often and loved to talk He frequently had them in stitches with tales of his childhood hometown of Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory of Australia Some of them were blatantly tall tales that Vicki took with a pinch of salt, but he had the gift of the gab, and clearly enjoyed h

She sood-looking guy, with floppy brown hair, startling green eyes, and a friendly grin…and he was the absolute worst person to ask for assistance in a situation like this While Ty was content to sit in his corner and stay out of the way, boredom had driven Chance to offer to help out around the shop a few times in the past They had very quickly learned that he was all thuned him

“That’s okay, thank you I think I have a handle on it”

“You sure? An extra pair of hands will get it done faster”

Thathe had asked her if she had plans for the evening He had looked relieved when she’d said no Vicki hadn’t thought anything of it at the time, but the earlier query—combined with this co plans for tonight

“You got so date, maybe?