Page 57 of Seductive Nights

The next morning, he got up. Margo still slept. So he snuck downstairs and made fresh coffee. He called Hanna's bakery to see if he could have cinnamon rolls delivered for breakfast.

She chuckled. "Yes, actually, I just hired a delivery person to help me out with that. What time would you like them?"

He said, "As soon as you can get him here would be great."

She laughed. "They'll be right there."

She chuckled as she hung up the phone. He grinned.

Margo came into his kitchen looking wonderfully disheveled, thoroughly loved, and sexy as hell. She sauntered over, kissed his lips, and he quickly handed her a cup of coffee.

Then he took her other hand and led her out to the back deck where he had chairs set up. They sat quietly, looking at his gardens.

He looked over at one point and grinned. "I have cinnamon rolls coming."

"That's wonderful, thank you," she said.

He took a sip of his coffee and then he asked, "Are we a couple?"

She turned her head. Her brows furrowed a moment, then relaxed.

She burst out laughing. "I suppose. What makes you ask that?"

"I just wondered if we were a couple. I mean we've been out on a couple of dates, but I didn't know if we were, you know, what do the kids call it these days? An item?"

"I think we're a couple." She grinned.

"Okay, that's all I wanted to know."

She laughed as she sipped at her coffee. The doorbell rang. He got up. "Cinnamon rolls."

He tipped the delivery boy, who he thought looked familiar, but he couldn't place the kid. He hustled back out to Margo and sat next to her. He opened the box and let her pick first. They silently ate their cinnamon rolls.

After they'd finished, she quietly said, "Do you want to be a couple?"

It was his turn to laugh. "Yeah, I want to be a couple with you."

"Good." She sipped her coffee again and swallowed the last of her cinnamon roll. "Because I really like mornings like this."

He grinned. "Me too."

32

Monday morning Margo was in her office at the real estate company. She was researching, preparing, and making notes.

Carley stepped in. "Good morning. What are you doing here so early?"

"Hi, I came in to do some research for Jace. I wanted to put together a list of businesses that have less than a thirty-foot buffer from the beach. Actually, two-story buildings with less than a thirty-foot buffer near the beach. In this section of town, there aren't many, but when you go down the beach past where Sid and Grace's bluff is, and Jamie Hart's barn, there's more beach along the way and there are two-story buildings over there. I wanted him to be armed with that information tonight when he goes before the Town Council.

Carley smiled at her. "Oh, you're so sweet. You really like him, huh?"

Margo stopped looking at her computer screen and folded her hands before her. "I really like him a lot, Carley. I more than like him."

Carley's mouth dropped open. "Do you love him? Are you in love with him?"

She huffed a little bit and took a deep breath. "I don't know. I think so. I feel so insecure about even knowing what love is after Logan and that whole thing."

"Well, don't sell yourself short. You know when you're happy. You know how you feel. Don't get knotted up over what you maybe refused to see before. And if your heart tells you that you love him, don't fight it. It doesn't come along very often, Margo."

---