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“Good, do you want to walk together?”
“Why not?” She said with a smile.
Cameron pulled out his phone and tapped out a message to Cole.
You guys take your time. Piper and I have had breakfast.
We’re going for a walk. Don’t hurry down here on our account.
He waited for a response, but it was Piper’s phone that beeped. She smiled as she read the message. “It’s Laura. She wants to know if I’m okay.”
Cameron laughed as he watched her tap out an answer. “What, she thinks you might need rescuing from the creepy dude you’ve been landed with? What are you going to tell her?”
Piper laughed with him. “No. I just told her I’m perfectly happy to hang out with you and that the two of them should take their time.”
Cameron smiled. “Perfectly happy, huh?”
She laughed. “Only because I’m not aware of the potential downsides, yet.”
Cameron shook his head. “I guess I walked myself right into that one, didn’t I?”
She shrugged. “Do you need to go back to your room for anything?”
“No. I’m good to go if you are?”
She looked down at herself, and he followed her gaze. She was no doubt indicating that, in jeans and hiking boots, she was all set, but he was far too distracted by the way her shirt stretched across her full breasts and the way her jeans hugged her rounded hips.
“I’m ready.”
He brought his gaze back up to meet hers, afraid she’d caught him checking her out, and at the same time wishing that she had and that she’d liked it and was telling him that she was ready to take him back to her room and … damn! He needed to get a grip. “Great. Let’s go. I was checking out the maps in my room, and it looks like this path follows the river a ways and then loops back around. How does that sound?”
The way she smiled at him made him feel like she’d been having the same thoughts he had, about going back to her room instead of out for a walk. “Sounds great.”
~ ~ ~
It was eleven thirty by the time they made it back to the resort. They’d been out a lot longer than Piper had expected, but she wished they had the whole day together. Cameron was great company. He was one of those all-around good guys. He was polite and attentive, but at the same time fun and engaging. She got the feeling he was attracted to her. She’d caught him checking her out enough times. But he’d been the perfect gentleman. Which was a little disappointing.
She was back in her room. Laura had called a few minutes ago, and they were going to go over to her store. Apparently, she and Smoke had finally decided on a date to get married—and it was two weeks from today! That meant it’d be all systems go to get everything set up. And that was a good thing. It’d help Piper take her mind off Cameron. She sighed. Or would it? He was going to be Smoke’s best man, so she knew she’d see him at least one more time, at the wedding.
Her phone beeped, and she picked it up. It was a text from Laura.
I’m in the reception. Are you ready or should I come up?
I’ll be right down.
She was a little disappointed when Laura told her that Smoke and Cameron were going to have lunch here at the resort while they went over to the other side of the lake. Laura’s jewelry store was in a shopping plaza over there.
She stared out the window on the way.
“Are you okay?” asked Laura.
“I’m great. I just can’t stop staring at this place. It’s so beautiful. Everything about it. The lake, the mountains.”
“It’s a bit different from home, isn’t it?”
“Just a lot.”
“Are you really going to talk to Smoke about a job?”
