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“What do you mean?”
“She left the gala last night to go find him and try to work things out.”
An image of them in an embrace popped in her head. Nope, she wasn’t losing her gift.
“I think they did.”
They found themselves back in the parking lot, and Aiden opened the back door to let Barney jump in, then opened her door.
He planted a kiss on her forehead before she slid in. The feeling of being cared for made her stomach dip. No man had ever handled her with such deference before. It was odd and thrilling at the same time.
“Hungry?” he asked when he got behind the wheel.
“Starving.”
“We’ll go to the place I mentioned and have breakfast on the patio with Barney.”
And he’d been such a great sport about welcoming Barney into his car and house.
If he was good with Asher, she was really in trouble.
But she didn’t have to worry about that since she was never going to introduce the two.
When Chloe had yelled from the kitchen earlier that morning, Dakota felt her body tense, worried her grandson would come crashing through her bedroom door and find his grandma in bed naked with a strange man.
Maybe she wasn’t as blasé about her family knowing she was with a man as she’d thought.
Aiden pulled into a parking lot next to a white building that had a neon sign touting they served breakfast all day. As they walked toward the entrance with Barney, he reached for her hand that wasn’t holding the leash.
“This doesn’t feel casual,” she admonished but didn’t pull away.
“Casual starts Monday. This weekend, I’m going to enjoy every minute with you.”
Casual starts Monday.
Okay, she could get on board with that.
They stopped outside the door, and he kissed her temple. “Wait here, I’ll go inside and see if they have anything available outside.”
Moments later, he appeared on the patio on the other side of a wrought iron gate. A younger woman carrying menus and silverware rolled in paper napkins waited patiently as he held the gate open for Dakota and Barney, then showed them to their table.
After handing them their menus, the hostess kneeled down and scratched Barney’s ears, to the pit bull’s delight. His furiously wagging tail banged against Dakota’s chair and got the women’s attention at the next table. When the hostess walked away, they asked if they could pet him.
Dakota released her hold on his lead and as he went over to get showered with more affection, Aiden laughed out loud.
“He is a lady killer.”
She shook her head as she watched her pup relishing the attention. “He’s shameless.”
She looked back at Aiden and found him staring at her with an affectionate smile.
“But, if it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have met you at World’s End the first time.”
“But we met again at Steven’s house.”
“Only because the Universe wanted to bring us back together.”
She pursed her lips to keep from smiling at him. “You can’t talk like that when you don’t really believe it.”
