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“Ah But you wish, huh?”

Dawn looked up Her slittered with distress “He hasn’t asked me He’s just here on vacation And—and even if he wanted to—if he wanted so for a divorce, I couldn’t let it happen”

“Because?”

“Because there are things about s…” Dawn reached for their check and pushed back her chair “I couldn’t, that’s all Leave it at that”

“Back to Dawn the Mysterious,” Cassie said, and sighed “No, that’s okay I’ to pry Well, I am, but I know there’s no point” She patted her lips with her napkin, tossed it on the table and reached for her purse “Your turn for the check? I’ll leave the tip”

The women walked out of the restaurant into the hot noonday sun “I’m happy,” Dawn said quietly “Really happy”

“Yeah, but for how long? Whatever this thing is that you never want to discuss, it’s still there And, look, I hate to ht decides it’s tio back to New York?”

“I’ll be fine”

“Oh sure You’ll be great Four years, and you’ve never soaround with Cupid’s arrow stuck between your shoulder blades but you’ll be fine when this guy leaves” Cassie looped her arh Dawn’s “You really think I believe that?”

“No” Dawn’s smile was shaky “I don’t And I don’t believe it, either, but that’s the way it’s going to be”

“And suppose he wants reat but it’s not over? What if he wants you to go with him and be part of his life?”

Dawn took a steadying breath “I’d have to tell him I can’t”

“Oh, Dawn…”

“Don’t you have to be back on the floor in ten minutes?”

“Five,” Cassie said, glancing at her watch She looked up and frowned “By the way, I think you have an admirer”