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.“It might be a little bit cold.I was waiting for you.”He felt a strange hitch in his chest.“You waited for me?”She nodded, then looked at the dim lights.“I have to keep them low, otherwise customers might think I’m open.”He grinned.“The Closed sign hanging on the door doesn’t do the trick.”She laughed.“Apparently not.Customers still come up to the door and peek into the window.But I guess I’m grateful that customers like my goods enough they they’ll stop by at all hours.”Her customers weren’t the only ones, he thought, as his glance moved over her goods.Oh yeah, he liked them enough that he’d stop by at all hours too.She continued to talk about her business, and how she’d like to hire more staff to keep later hours.He listened to her ideas and scarfed down his first piece in record time, following each bite with a swig of his cola.“Have some more.” Madison nudged the box toward him.He helped himself to more and as he chewed he noticed sauce on Madison’s face.He grabbed a napkin, and without giving it another thought, swiped at it, but when his fingers connected with her soft flesh, something that looked an awful lot like heat moved across her face.“You…uh…you have sauce on your face,” he explained and jerked his hand back.As the air charged and his blood ran south, he quickly changed the subject.“I guess it’s going to be hard for you with Jonah away for a month.”He watched her throat work as she swallowed and realized it felt a little odd sitting in the dark bakery with her like this, a little intimate.“I kind of got used to the company, and because I don’t have an alarm system, I sleep better when he’s here.”“He takes good care of you?”“Yeah, Jonah might be a lot of things,” she said, a knowing grin on her face, “but he’s good to me.”“That’s good.” Brad stuffed his face before he said something he might regret, like how she should ditch his punk-ass brother and give him a chance.But he’d never do that to Jonah, no matter how much he wanted Madison for himself.Madison finished eating and said, “Wait here, I’ll be right back.”Brad pushed back in his chair and looked around her bakery as she disappeared into the kitchen area.He was impressed that she’d built the business from the ground up and was garnering quite the loyal following in town and in the wedding circuits.Too bad she had to start out in such a crappy building, and if he ever came face to face with her landlord, he was going to give him a good shit kicking.Madison stepped up behind him, ice clinking in a bag.“What are you doing?” he asked.He was about to turn but her hand on his shoulder stopped him.“Shh, just let me check your head, okay?”Her body crowded his as she carefully placed the ice on his lump.How long had it been since someone had taken care of him? Not since before his mother had passed.That Madison was the one caring for him now caused a tightening in his gut.“It’s still very swollen,” she said quietly.Oh, she seriously had no idea.“Did you ice it earlier when I told you to?”He shifted, ready to grab the bag and place it on a different body part.“Yeah,” he mumbled.“Sort of.”She huffed.“You really need to take better care of yourself.”He made a move to get up, this nurturing side of her making him feel all peculiar inside, making him remember his own upbringing and the way his mother showered her boys with love before cancer took her shortly after his father’s heart attack.Their love was so strong that Brad couldn’t help but think her death came on the heels of his father’s quickly because it was nature’s way of putting husband and wife back together again.His heart tightened with memories of his folks and his happy childhood.Brad had always wanted a family of his own, and just when he thought it was within reach, his ex had betrayed him, and ever since his world had been tilted off balance.He cleared his throat, unease moving through him.“Let me get at the tank, okay?”With the bag still on his head, she shifted, and perched on the table beside him.She yawned, and said quietly, “Let’s leave it for tonight.”“No.I’m not leaving you here without water.”“I’ll be fine.”He gave her a crooked grin.“Now look who’s being stubborn.”“You’ve done enough.” Warm brown eyes full of genuine concern moved over his face.“Besides you’re fighting a cold and I think you have a concussion.”He exhaled slowly, exhaustion moving through his body now that he stopped working.“Okay, how about this.I’ll call it a night if you agree to stay at my place.”Her body tightened and she opened her mouth to say something when he cut her off.“I’m not leaving you without water.So either I fix this tonight, or you stay at my place.”“I don’t think—”“Besides, I have a concussion,” he said, wincing with a little too much enthusiasm as he took the bag of ice from her.“And I don’t think I’m supposed to be alone.”She chuckled quietly and shook her head.“You always did know how to get what you wanted didn’t you?”Not always…He arched a brow.“So…?”“Fine.” She pushed off the table.He grabbed her arm and softened his voice when he added, “It’s what Jonah would have wanted me to do.”Her eyed dimmed as she looked at some distant spot past his shoulder, letting him know how much she adored his brother.His gut clenched wishing she’d look at him like that.“Okay, I’ll sleep on the sofa,” she said quietly.He nodded, even though he had no intention of letting her crash on his couch, but now was not the time to be arguing about such things.“Just let me grab my stuff.”As soon as she left he pulled his cell from his pocket and made a call.He spoke quietly as Madison made her way upstairs, and just as he was about to hang up, he heard Madison behind him.“Brad, do you want—” Her voice fell off when she saw the phone in his hand.“Oh, I’m sorry.If I’m keeping you from someone…”He shut down his phone, shoved it in his pocket, and shook his head.“That was Granddad.I normally visit him on Wednesdays and bring one of the therapy dogs by but I don’t want to go around the nursing home with a cold [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]