She looked a little defensive, but I could barely contain myself. I forced myself to take a deep breath. “Trust me when I say that mixed relationships are not a problem for me.”

  She relaxed, then gave me a look that warmed me instantly, straight through. “If you invite me over for breakfast, I’ll ditch the snowshoeing. But I have to leave by noon, because I promised Kelly I’d take her shift at the shelter so she can be with her family.”

  “Breakfast is at nine o’clock!” I could barely get the words out fast enough.

  “Claudia won’t mind?”

  “Nah. I’ll call her when I get home.” Claudia had been pushing me to ask Annie out from the first time I’d mentioned her. “She’s good people, not an evil bone in her body,” Claudia’d said. And Claudia knows bones, good and evil.

  “I’ll be there.” Annie smiled, so sexy I felt my knees go to jelly. “I made a batch of my famous chocolate-chip muffins; I’ll bring them.”

  Into nature, civic-minded, and a cook? I realized I was grinning like an idiot, so I drank the rest of my beer, to keep from proposing to her right then and there, my head ringing with every Christmas carol ever written.

 

 

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