Jack stopped at a Trader Joe’s, and they loaded up on supplies there, and afterward went to a Safeway to get all the things they might need to fill in the gaps. Kate thought his idea of barbecuing at least some of their meals was a good one — less work in the kitchen, and the weather was certainly mild enough that they’d be able to linger on the patio he’d described, cooking the main part of their dinners there, maybe even eating outside, too, if the temperatures didn’t drop too quickly once the sun went down.
Having those thoughts run through her mind, though, just made her want to shake her head at herself. This wasn’t some vacation getaway. She and Jack weren’t going down to his house outside Tucson just to have a romantic weekend together. There shouldn’t be anything romantic about th
