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HANNAH CAME OUT of the bathroom all dressed for dinner, only to find Blake snoring on the bed. She thought about waking him, but considering he’d been up since five, had gone to work, and had just completed a two-hour drive, she didn’t have the heart to disturb him.
Besides, considering what she had planned for him later, he would need his rest.
After their beach trip, and the realization that she was in love with him, Hannah had decided to use her trip to Tahoe for something special.
Being with Blake for the first time.
Yes, there were still times she caught him looking sad and wondered if he was thinking about his wife, but he had never given her a reason to doubt he cared for her. The way he spoke to her, laughed with her, touched her . . . They all compiled into a thousand reasons why she was sure that she was over the moon in love with Blake.
Quietly, she snuck out of the room and went down to the front desk. The woman behind the desk smiled at her and said, “May I help you?”
“Hi, I was wondering if the restaurant did to-go orders?”
“Yes, they do. There’s also room service, ma’am.”
Hannah didn’t really want someone coming to the room and waking Blake up if he needed rest. “That’s okay, I’ll just grab it since I’m down here.”
“If you want to go into the restaurant, it’s through those doors. You can order at the bar, and they’ll get you anything you want.”
“Thank you.”
Twenty-five minutes later, Hannah snuck back into the room and found Blake still passed out. She spread the tablecloth they had given her out in front of the fireplace and set up both meals.
Going to the bed, she put her hand on his shoulder lightly.
“Blake, come on. It’s dinner time.”
Blake woke up with a start, his gaze heavy lidded. “I fell asleep.”
“Yeah, but it’s okay. I just thought you might want to eat something now.”
Blake sat up and looked over at her makeshift picnic with a smile. “Look at you, bringing home the bacon.”
She turned on the fire and sat down, patting the ground. “There’s no bacon down here; I’m way classier than that.” Blake chuckled softly, and she sighed impatiently, “Come on, sleepy, I’m hungry.”
Blake sat across from her and dug into his steak. She took a few bites of the chicken and groaned at the rich flavors. “Hmm.”
“I didn’t realize how hungry I was,” he said.
“Or how tired,” she quipped.
“Hey, maybe I got tired of waiting for you to primp.”
“I wasn’t primping. I was washing eight hours of paste and germs from my body.”
“How is the job going?” he asked.
Hannah had cut back her hours at the diner in order to sub in the morning more and continue doing her job at Fairview Elementary. She was still hoping they kept her on for next year and bumped her up to full time, but after butting heads with the vice principal, she wasn’t getting her hopes up.
“It’s great. I wish it was something I could count on past the end of May, but I’ll keep looking until I find something permanent.”
“You’ll find something. You’re great with the kids at Alpha Dog, so I can only imagine that kindergarteners adore you.”
Hannah had come by Alpha Dog a couple times and helped some of the kids with their schoolwork during study hall. The boys perked up when they saw her coming, although Blake had told her it wasn’t for the reason she thought, which had made her too embarrassed to go back for a while.
“Yes, but according to you, they only like me for my assets.”
“I didn’t say that! I said they are teenaged boys and susceptible to pretty women.”
