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“Exactly,” he said.

She hugged him tighter. “I’m glad you’ve got it.”

“Because you’ve got it too,” he said.

“I do. If we want to make this work, I think we can.”

“Do you want to?” he asked. “I guess we need to decide at some point.”

“I don’t need to wait to decide. I know,” she said. “Right now, we can figure it out and make it work. I’m not looking too far into the future just yet.”

“Good,” he said. “Because I want to try to make this work too. Next weekend, I’ll come to you.”

“And I’ll be waiting.”

28

A GOOD PERSON

Two weeks later, Laurel was back in Stamford.

Last weekend Easton came to her early on Saturday morning and they had a good time going on a sailboat cruise. It was his idea and he’d said he’d never been on one even though he grew up in the area. They went out to dinner that night, slept in on Sunday and he left after lunch to go home.

So far it was working out well.

During the week they did more texting than talking but did chat on the phone at least twice for thirty minutes or so.

She could tell he wasn’t comfortable with it and she found it funny since he was talking to people all day long for work.

Then she realized that it was a different type of conversation he was having.

But when they were together they had so much chemistry and got along so well that she wasn’t going to let it get to her he might not like to chat on the phone.

The truth was, she wasn’t one to talk on the phone either.

“If it’s too much for you to come on Friday nights, you can come in the morning like I did,” he said on Saturday morning.

“It gives us another night together, but if it’s easier for you to have me come in the morning I can,” she said.

“I’m good either way,” he said. “Last week I would have come on Friday if I didn’t get held up in a late meeting. By then it was just easier to wait since I had to get a few things done. But if you’re fine with it, I can come earlier with you at work. I mean, I could work at Abe’s.”

“Nonsense,” she said. “You can go to my place without me there. I’ll give you a key.”

She hadn’t wanted to put the pressure on him like that, but since he was bringing it up it was nicer.

“There, that is solved,” he said. “And since next Saturday we’ve got a wedding to go to, I’ll probably come early on Friday if that works.”

Ivy Greene was getting married next Saturday. Laurel had been surprised she was invited since she hadn’t known Ivy long and knew there would be a lot of other employees invited.

But she got along with Ivy and did talk to her a lot. She’d asked Easton if he wanted to go with her and he’d said yes.

Not many were aware she was dating someone, so she knew it was going to be interesting when she showed up with him.

Poppy knew, and Poppy talked, but since she was on maternity leave, the news wasn’t traveling all that fast and it was fine with her.

“Show up any time you want,” she said. “I mean that.”

“I’ll check out my schedule,” he said. “What time do you go to work?”

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