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“Wow That looks great”

“Just doing htened “You did a good job picking out the tile”

“And you’re doing a fabulous job installing everything On Thanksgiving” She uilty”

He snorted “I’ve worked on Thanksgiving for over ten years It’s just another day”

It was sad he felt that way, but given his round, she understood Still…

“I wish you had come with me to my dad’s”

Glancing at her froed “I didn’t want to intrude Besides, hoould you have explained that?”

Confused, she stared at him Did he know about the Butterflies and how they had hi romance? She’d threatened them with bodily harm if they bothered him at Hamilton House, but she wouldn’t put it past them to have found a way They were sneaky like that

“Me going to Thanksgiving dinner with you” He shook his head as if the idea was inconceivable “Everyone would have made incorrect assumptions”

The Butterflies would have, because that’s what they did But other people would have seen it for what it was Friendship Nothing more

Right?

“Friends go to dinners with each other,” she reminded

“Maybe,” he conceded, but didn’t look convinced “Everything go okay?”

She nodded “It went great, except I don’t think Dad wantedwithout Aunt Jean, which is difficult enough, but also the first Thanksgiving I’ve not lived at home”

Her father had let that little tidbit slip out in his conversation over dinner She’d been so busy focusing on the positive, on getting ready for the festival, on preparing for the grand opening, she hadn’t thought about her dadher there