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“I’ve heard Grand out with friends or anywhere without ht You had fun, didn’t you? I heard you and Mr Sanchez laughing It sounded like fun to me And nobody had to cook”

Ca But she didn’t knohat Ca out with her friends was how she’d met Josh in the first place And look how that turned out But she’d gotten the better end of that deal—a beautiful little girl Even as she tried to glower at her sufficiently-chastised daughter “It wasn’t fair to me and Mr Sanchez to surprise us like that, so how about no more lies, okay?”

“Okay, Mommy” Lizzie jumped up and headed down the hall

“Where do you think you’re going, young lady?” Caot dishes to do”

The doorbell rang right when Canored the bell It was probably a door-to-door sales fundraiser candy Always impossible to turn down

The bell rang again Shoot She couldn’t concentrate if she was thinking about as standing on her porch She hit the save button, hurried across the house, and threw the door open

Where she saw a delivery ement of flowers

“Cameron Baldwin? These are for you”

She accepted the bouquet that was thrust into her hands The young man then beat a path to his car so fast that she didn’t have a chance to tip him

She buried her nose in the flowers Much better than fundraiser candy—and cheaper And they were her favorite—Gerbera daisies and alstroe with Lizzie last night?

They hadn’t talked long, but Cameron had had a few choice words with Mo

As she wandered into the kitchen, Booainst the sides of his crate and barked at the large bouquet of flowers Why did the dog with the world’she could sink his teeth into? And then throw up on unwitting houseguests? Boo anywhere near these flowers

She slipped the card out of the envelope “Thank you for a wonderful evening We should do it again”

The card wasn’t signed, but it didn’t need to be Alex had sent these

She buried her nose in the fragrant flowers until she re to like Alex She certainly wasn’t going to fall in love with hiet involved with anyone in the Army Or the Navy or Marines, for that ner at a tiuarantee he could stick around And sticking around was a requirement on her list