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Оглавление“Tessie likes you.”
“She’s special, isn’t she?” Gracie replied.
“You’re my first choice to help me take care of her,” Calen replied.
Gracie smiled and nodded. “I’m glad to help, then.”
Calen draped a blanket over Gracie’s shoulders and tucked it between them in the place under his arm where she was pressed against him. She closed her eyes as though she was weary.
Then he leaned over and kissed her forehead.
“What’s that for?” she muttered sleepily.
He smiled. “Nothing.”
“You always were a Romeo,” she whispered without opening her eyes. “A woman in every port, Buck used to say.”
“I never did take to the sea,” he corrected her mildly. He wondered suddenly how different their futures would have been if he’d been the first one to ask Gracie out on a date in high school. He had wanted to, but his nerves had failed him. By the time he got the courage, Buck had asked her instead.
Maybe there was time yet to find out where the feelings he had for her would lead if he let them....
