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Damn you, Ty!

It was one of the photos she had coerced Chance into taking She was staring straight into the lens and laughing at so Chance had said Ty had his ar at her The expression on his face…she shook her head and enlarged the picture until all she could see was Ty He had a soft, almost bewildered smile on his face as he watched at her, his expression filled with tender reverence, his eyes shining with…

No!

She thrust the phone into a desk drawer

Just no!

She didn’t knohat he was playing at right now, but she was not going to do this to herself She refused to stare yearningly at a photograph and read deepertoand attees and pretty pictures?

Her lips thinned, and she reached into the drawer for her phone and quickly tapped a reply, before shoving the device out of sight again

I’m sure that whatever you decide will be fine

There Done That had to be the end of this

Only, it wasn’t the end of it The following afternoon, Jazz knocked on her door and, with a flourish, dropped a beautiful arrangeaped at the very specific shades of pink for a befuddled nificance of the blooms hit her

“What is this?” she asked

“It’s for you”

“These flowers aren’t in season” It was literally all she could think of to say “Where were they sourced from? Did Linda order them when I was out of the country?”

“Oh, they’re not from here,” Jazz said, and that just pissed Vicki off even more

“He sent me flowers from a competitor?”