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“Nice to meet you, Mia,” he said.

Mia let Nate take her hand. When he let go, she felt an unexpected moment of loss.

“Nice to meet you, too,” she replied as his smile deepened.

“So you own the flower store,” he said, dropping his cowboy hat back on his head. “That’s ambitious,” he continued.

“It definitely keeps me busy.”

For this brief moment, Mia didn’t feel like a mommy weighed down with obligations. She returned his smile.

Just then her friend Sophie arrived, pushing the buggy, wails emanating from it. “I think one of your little girls is hungry,” she said to Mia.

Mia caught Nate frowning at her.

“Those are your kids?” he asked. “Sorry, I didn’t know you were—”

“A mom?” Mia couldn’t stop the hint of annoyance entering her voice. “It gets worse. There’s two more of these at home,” she said.

Nate wasn’t the first man put off by her brood.

He was, however, the first man she’d felt any attraction to in a long, long time.