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Good for him!

She dashed her hand across her eyes—atte to mop up the tears—and shakily tapped a response and sent it before she could change her mind

It looks really good there

Yeah, I agree I’ a few more What do you think of these?

Her phone pinged repetitively as several photos followed that text in rapid succession She didn’t knohat she had expected, but it wasn’t this She stared blankly at the pictures, not entirely sure what to make of them Or what they were supposed to mean

Most of the pictures—which he must have taken with his phone—were split between Bloomin’ Paradise and Riversend

She swiped through the past the thick lump that had formed in her throat They were all so beautiful, the South Bank i reflections, a popcorn vendor having a laugh with Vicki, who had her back to the camera In fact, she was in most of the pictures, usually in profile, or turned away

In one of the photos, she was dancing with a broken umbrella she had found on a park bench In another, Ty had captured the exact instant she’d jumped into what she had believed to be a shallow puddle, only to discover it was deeper than she had anticipated—catching the ht on her face, as water had fountained up from the pothole

The pictures fro with Stor the unique fynbos on that beautiful beach they had visited While the shop photos didn’t feature her as much, there were pictures of the displays, the different textures and colors of the dried foliage they used as fillers, the rows of bright ribbons, sparkly accessories, the rack of cards for every occasion He hadn’tOne of her favorites was a black and white shot of Josh’s dark head bent over Yuko’s, while he helped her with her homework at Vicki’s worktable

The ie that choked her up the most was of a boutonnière she had er She found it so daraph it

These beautiful, sweet, and joyful photographs bore little resees he had shown her before

She wasn’t sure why she was in so h She could tell herself it was because it had been his job to watch her…but most of these appeared to have been taken in his downtime

Minutes had passed since his last e, but she didn’t knohat to say, how to react All she could do was cycle through the iain

I didn’t take this one, but it’s ht you’d want to see it

The picture following that text hijacked her breath