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“I knew it!” Edie all but shouted as she burst into the room.
Kara started so hard she almost came out of the chair, then she saw her sister in the doorway, wearing a beautiful silk kimono, purple with pink lilies.
“It’s that man, isn’t it? It’s Jim Corona.”
“What do you mean, you knew it? How could you know it? I didn’t even know it. What are you, turning into Selene all of a sudden?”
“You knew what?” Wade asked.
Smiling, Edie came closer and leaned down to plant a kiss on his cheek. “You’re so sweet when you’re dense.” Then she slid into a chair opposite Kara, beside her husband. The table was bamboo, round, surrounded by fan-backed chairs lined with thick floral-print cushions. “Mel and I spoke on the phone last night. She told me what a huge crush you used to have on Jim in high school.”
“It wasn’t a crush.”
“No?”
“More like a case of idol worship. But he never so much as noticed me.”
“Sure. That’s what Wade thought about me, too. That I’d never so much as noticed him.”
Kara blinked up at the handsome bad boy who’d married her sister. “You thought that?” He nodded. “God, she was nuts about you.” Then she thinned her lips. “This isn’t the same, though. I mean, I don’t know what to think. Jimmy... he tried to kiss me.”
Wade came out of his chair. “Do I need to take care of this? You want me to go over there, Kara?”
“No. God, no, Wade, he didn’t get out of line. He just... sort of... well, it was nothing. It’s not like... it’s just that I don’t understand it.”
Edie tipped her head sideways. “You don’t understand why a man would want to kiss you?”
“I don’t understand whyJimmy Coronawould want to kiss me.”
“Oh. Now I get it,” Wade said.
“Well, I don’t.”
He looked at his wife. “Youweremy Jimmy Corona, hon. Youwouldn’tget it.”
“Oh, don’t be ridiculous. Jimmy Corona is just a guy. He’s in his hometown and he runs into a girl from high school who grew up to be a total knockout. Naturally he’s interested. The thing you need to think about, Kara, isn’t why he would give you a second glance. You’re a hottie now, you gotta just trust me on that. The thing you should be thinking about is, where can this thing go? He’s in town for—what?—a couple of weeks?”
“Around three,” Kara said.
“So then what? I mean, suppose you fall head over heels for the guy? What happens when he has to leave?”
“Good grief, Edie, you’re worrying about long-term relationship decisions already?” Kara cried. “He’s only been in town a day. It was one tiny little kiss.”
“I thought you said he onlytriedto kiss you.”
Kara averted her eyes. “Well, yeah. And then he tried again. And I sort of let him the second time.”
“Aha! So you kissed him back.”
“I didn’t really do anything but stand there with my knees knocking.”
Wade grinned and averted his face to try to hide it
“Look, Kara,” Edie said. “You have to find out what he has in mind here. A vacation fling? Or...something else?”
“I can’t ask him that. It’s... it’s too soon. I don’t even know if it’s anything more than... than just what it was. One kiss.”
Edie looked at Wade as if for help. He shrugged, but Kara could see his mind working overtime.
