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“I’m sorry. I just received notice I’m needed back in Houston.”
“Oh, well. I guess it’s for the best really.” Juniper looked abashed. “I hope that doesn’t put a kink in your fun. But I’m on a time crunch to get Mr. Blackwood’s wedding on the roll for a wedding in two weeks.”
“Wow.”
“Yeah, wow,” Juniper agreed, and her cheeks flushed a pretty pink when her gaze briefly met his.
“Rain-check? We’ll see each before summer ends, of course.”
“Of course! And no worries—you take care of what you need to do and we’ll put the wine on ice for later.” Ivy winked and waved goodbye, puppy and husband in tow.
Alone, he waited for Juniper to settle back in her chair. He wasn’t ready to leave, not when Juniper stirred such strange feelings within him. The girls he’d dated in the past didn’t come close to intriguing him the way she did and that both made him want to dig deeper.
“Come with me.”
He spat out his offer before he had time to rethink the idea.
“Where?” There she went with that nibble on her lip again and he wanted to kiss it, suck it between his own lips and see if she was as sweet as he feared.
“Houston. You’ll need to come with me. Please,” he added. The lie slid off his tongue with an amazing grace that surprised him. “We can wrap up the rest of the wedding plans on the plane. I’ll take care of business that cropped up suddenly and then we can be back here for your friend’s party.”
“And Gran’s birthday,” she added. “But I don’t think we’ll make Ivy’s.”
She seemed to consider his proposal for what felt like long minutes. “I would like to do the measurements for the bride’s dress personally. Help Stella move through that quickly as well as the bridesmaids’ dresses. Then we have the groom.” She nodded his way. “I can move through the rest of the details quickly with her help. Okay. I guess that settles that. When are we leaving?”
“Right now.” No way would he give her time to reconsider. Or himself, for that matter. Weddings could be planned from half a world away, but he couldn’t figure out one Juniper Winters any other way other than having her next to him.
