“I guess I’d like a dog, but I don’t have the time or the space, really, for one right now. And if I’m talking real pie in the sky here, I’d like to travel a little bit. Not everywhere, but there are a few places I’d love to see. Bucket list stuff.”
“Like where?” Cameron asked and yawned before she leaned her head against the back of the sofa.
“Probably all the places you’ve been to already.”
“I travel for work. Yes, I’ve taken a few trips personally, too, but mostly, it’s for work, so I don’t even see where I’m traveling to or from. Where do you want to go, Lacey?”
“Well, I’d like to go to Italy. Rome would be great for the history and maybe…”
“You’re trying not to say Florence because I told you about Kennedy’s plan for us to go there, aren’t you?”
“I don’t know. I’d like to see the David and maybe go to a vineyard or something, but I have other places I want to go. I’d like to go to Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Zurich, maybe Prague, and–”
“So, justa few?” Cameron teased, smiling softly at her.
“You look tired.”
“Gee, thanks,” she replied sarcastically.
Lacey looked over Cameron’s shoulder then and said, “I think they went inside.”
“Maybe they’re baking something else in the kitchen.”
“You don’t bake fudge,” Lacey said.
“You know what I mean.”
“I do, yes.”
“I should get some sleep,” Cameron stated. “We both should, probably. It’s late, and I don’t know about you, but I didn’t sleep well last night.”
“Is it wrong that I really don’twantto go to bed?” Lacey asked.
Cameron didn’t know how to answer that because she knew exactly what Lacey meant, and she really didn’t want to go to bed, either.
CHAPTER 22
Lacey
“Last morning,” she said, mostly to herself.
“Yeah,” River echoed from her position lying next to her. “Breakfast, and we’re gone.”
“What do you want to do for the rest of the day?” Lacey asked, turning her head toward her girlfriend.
“Oh, I–” River stopped.
“You want to check on the shop, don’t you?”
“I told Cal I’d be there by two just to close down. She has a romantic night planned with Ashton. They’re doing the whole baby-making thing, and it takes some of the romance out of it, so she said she’d cover Friday, Saturday, and open Sunday if I could get there by two or three to close. She needs to get home to set up whatever it is that she wants to set up.”
“Well, I’m glad they’re making the whole experience as romantic as they can.”
“Yeah, me too,” River said. “Maybe tomorrow night?”
“What’s tomorrow night?”
“No, I meant that maybe tomorrow night, I could come over.”
