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“It’s great. It’s beautiful, and all of the people here have been incredible.”
“Are you thinking about staying here, permanently?”
“No. This was just a get away destination so that I could clear my head. I have to get back home, soon.”
“Where is home at?” Alexis asked, sounding as though she was genuinely interested.
“Livingston, Montana.”
“I noticed that you have some friends who came with you,” Alexis said.
“They did. We all needed a breath of fresh air,” Lucy explained.
“I’ve only talked to them briefly,” Alexis said.
“They are both pretty great men,” Lucy said. “All three of us have been best friends since we were in diapers.”
“I’m guessing that they didn’t follow you into town because they want to be just friends,” Alexis said. “I’m also guessing that you didn’t come to town just because you needed a vacation.”
Lucy sighed. She figured that it wouldn’t hurt to be a little honest with Alexis.
“You are right,” Lucy said. “They both, all of the sudden, decided that they wanted to be out of the friend zone. I guess they figured that it was time to get married and start a family, and I was convenient.”
“Honey, if they followed you here all the way from Montana, it wasn’t because you were convenient. They must feel something for you. If they are both great men, why don’t you just pick one and settle down?”
Lucy said, “I only want to get married if I am truly in love with someone.”
Alexis gave a humorless laugh that almost sounded like a donkey’s guffaw.
“What is love? Does it even exist?”
“I like to think that it does.”
“I thought that I was in love with someone, but he wasn’t the person that I thought he was,” Alexis said, sadly.
“What do you mean?”
“I’ve known Luke since we were kids, although he didn’t run around in the same circles. I always had a crush on him. He came back to Ivy Springs after getting out of the military. Every time I looked at him, my heart lurched. Butterflies swarmed in my stomach, and I thought about him constantly. But then, I found out that he was a shifter.”
“So,” Lucy said. “What difference does that make?”
“The Faisons have been at war with shifters for the last two hundred years. There is no way that I could be with a shifter.”
“Maybe it’s time to end the war,” Lucy said. “Nothing good ever comes of hate.”
Alexis shrugged her shoulders and said, “It doesn’t matter, anyway. Luke and his family completely disappeared. I doubt if I will ever see him again.”
“I’m really sorry that your heart was broken,” Lucy said.
In spite of what she knew about Alexis and her family, she truly did sympathize with Alexis.
“I guess it doesn’t matter,” she said. “Can I have a large mocha?”
“Of course,” Lucy said.
Alexis paid with a twenty, telling Lucy to keep the change, and left.
Clara stared after Alexis, her mouth open and her eyes wide.
