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Baylee stepped close, standing between his legs with her hands on his shoulders. He rested his hands on her hips.
“You didn’t take the photo. You didn’t put it on the internet. And from what I can see on the original post, it was a fan excited that they were dining at a table near you. They didn’t mean any harm.”
He chuckled and shook his head. “You’re taking this so much better than I thought you would.”
“Kate warned me about this.”
“What?”
She shushed him with a finger to his lips. A finger that tasted like sugar as he kissed it.
“Don’t be mad at Kate. She was trying to protect me. Both of us. She means well.”
“She’s nosy.”
She kissed him this time to shush him up. It worked.
“She cares and I appreciate that.”
“She’s…” But her mouth was on his again and, damn, all thought flew from his head. All he could see, feel, think of was Baylee. Sweet, curvy, perfect Baylee.
When they came up for air, she said, “Let’s just take this one day at a time, okay? You said yourself this happens to you all the time right?”
He nodded.
“Well, better we start learning how to deal with it now than when you’re thousands of miles away.”
“Man, you’re easy on me.”
“No. I’m falling head over heels in love with you.”
He blinked.
“Sorry. Didn’t mean to spring that on you like that, I just wanted you to know how I feel and I…”
He pulled her to him and buried his face in her neck. She loved him. That shouldn’t shock him. The woman was a giant heart with skin.
“You don’t have to say anything back, I just…”
He placed a soft kiss on her neck then held her face in his hands, leaning down so they were eye to eye. “I think I fell for you the minute I saw you across the room at Kate’s wedding.”
Her emerald eyes lit up. “You did?”
“I did.”
She smiled before kissing him again and shooing him out the door with a promise to see him at her house for dinner in a couple hours.
He went out the back door, filled with more hope than when he first entered the bakery. Maybe Baylee was right. Maybe they could weather this part of his life if they took things one day at a time.
*
Baylee said goodbyeto Drew at the back door. When she turned, Eva eyed her from across the large kitchen island.
“What?”
“Well, for starters, I thought you two might start a fire in there.”
Baylee’s whole body flushed with heat. She’d completely forgotten about the window looking into the office. Eva must have seen everything. Every kiss.
