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I have all the ingredients for your apple and cinnamon lattice. They’ll be in the tent waiting for you until four o’clock. Mike had not replied to Elise’s text; he had, however, read it at least a dozen times. Elise was probably the most thoughtful girl he’d ever met; certainly the most thoughtful girl he’d fallen in love with.
Sitting in the racetrack parking lot in his truck, Mike reread the message. Wait a minute! Had he just said fallen in love with? A smile crept over him when he thought back to Friday night, to that lingering kiss on the dance floor. He was! He was in love with Elise Bennett. “Ah, dang it!” Why did he have to fall in love with her? She was moving to DC tomorrow.
Still thinking about her, he put his phone away and got out of his truck. It was quarter to four. Pr
