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couldn’t do it.
    Sighing in the back of his throat, Zander slowly opened his eyes and sat up in his seat running his hand down his face. Sitting around like this wasn’t going to get him anywhere. He had to do something to keep his mind off her until he had a definite plan of action. Work was always the best thing to keep his mind occupied.
    Reaching for the paper on his desk, Zander picked it up, folded it in half and then slid it into the front pocket of his jeans before standing up. A few hours out of the office dealing with a new client might help clear things up for him. He would bet money that Sabrina wasn’t sitting around thinking about their future together.
    She was probably thinking of new ways to avoid contact with him. Zander loved how Sabrina actually thought he was going to let her go. She was his ! They might not be together at the moment, yet he knew their relationship would end up just the way he saw it.
    Sliding his hands into his pockets, Zander headed towards the door with a spring to his step.  Jax won over Sahara after a long battle and it seemed like he might be going down a tougher road with Sabrina, but she was so worth it .

Chapter Nine
     
     
    Surprised by her mother’s invitation to fix dinner for them tonight, Sabrina relaxed on a kitchen bar stool twirling a pencil around her fingers. She wasn’t home an hour before her mother showed up with all of the ingredients to fix her famous broccoli, chicken and cheese casserole.
    Sabrina had thought about turning her down, but changed her mind. She really hadn’t spoken to her mother much since Avery’s funeral. It was still too hard on her to reminisce about their childhood with her only living family member.
    “Mama, you didn’t have to come over here and cook dinner for us tonight,” Sabrina complained, watching as her mother checked the boiling pots on the stove top. “I know how to fix a meal for myself.”
    Turning away from the pot on the front burner, her mother stared at her from across the room. “Baby girl, I know you can cook because I taught you how before you moved away for college.”
    She knew that her mama missed her coming over for visits but she couldn’t go back and see pictures of her and Avery displayed lovingly by her mother throughout the house.
    She wasn’t trying to break her bond with her mother, but it was just still hard to walk through the front door and into her past like that.
    “I know I haven’t been around, but work has been keeping me very busy and then I usually come home and crash on the couch. I don’t go out as much as I used to do,” Sabrina admitted.
    Spinning back around to the stove her mother turned off the burner; she grabbed a pot holder off the cabinet beside her and carried the boiling pot over to the sink. Sabrina watched as her mother drained the pasta for her casserole.
    She remembered how every Monday night the wonderful smell of cheese melting in the oven would fill the house. She would race downstairs to the dinner table so she could get the first pick at which corner piece she wanted.
    Her mother dumped the pasta into a bowl before adding in the broccoli and chicken along with the two cheeses and the other ingredients that gave it so much creamy richness.
    “Are you sure that you haven’t been going out lately?” her mother inquired as she poured everything into a baking dish then carried it over to the oven. Opening it up, she placed it on the bottom rack, closed the door then set the timer above the stove before joining her at the island.
    “What are you taking about?” Sabrina wondered what her mother was up to. The way the conversation was going it felt like she was on a hunting mission for some juicy gossip.
    “I heard you were out on a date with Brian. I didn’t know things had gotten that far between the two of you,” her mother said. “I’m glad you’re going out more but I was hoping you might become interested in Zander more. He is such a nice man.”
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