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you and I’m awfully glad you’re back in town.”
    “I love you too, but I have to tell you that I’ve eaten way too much this evening. I hurt,” he laughed.
    “Well, come over to the couch and stretch out. That will help.”
    “If I fall asleep, will you cover me up? I didn’t sleep very well last night because I was so worried about you and your phone call this morning sent my adrenaline into overdrive.”
    “Do you want to go home?” she asked.
    “No, I’m not ready to do that yet. I want to be with you for a while. Is that okay?”
    Polly blew out the candles, shut off the lights in the kitchen and they walked across to the living room. She sat down and patted the sofa beside her. He joined her and leaned back into her arms.
    “This is exactly where I want to be right now,” he said .

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER SEVEN

     
    Using her dad’s letter opener to reach a book on a top shelf in her office, Polly jumped when Henry spoke.
    “What are you doing?” he asked.
    She looked at him a little sheepishly, “Trying to reach a book?”
    “Why did you put those things up so high and why are you using a deadly weapon?”
    The letter opener was made of heavy steel and the blade was pretty sharp. Polly grinned and got out of the way while Henry reached up to pull the book down. “ A Universe of Star Wars Collectibles ? What do you want with this?”
    “Nothing.” She grabbed it and stuck it in a drawer.
    “What?”
    “Nothing, okay?” she laughed.
    “It’s something. Tell me.”
    “Fine. I was messing around on an auction site and wanted to see what a piece was worth.”
    He gazed around her office. “You don’t have enough already?”
    “We’re not talking about it. Got it?”
    “Got it,” he said. “So, it looks like you made it through a night without a crisis.”
    “I’m going to assume it’s because you’re back in town.” Polly winked at him. “They knew you had come riding in on your white horse ready to defend my honor and destroy any who set out to harm me,” she laughed. “So what are you doing here today?”
    “I’m still on vacation. I didn’t schedule anything because I thought I’d be driving back from Michigan, so … ” he looked around her office, “I have nothing to do. Will you entertain me?”
    “I’d love to, but Lydia and Beryl are coming at ten o’clock. They’re in charge of Halloween here next Thursday night. Then I am having lunch with Joss Mikkels and this afternoon Jeff and I were going to go over decorating plans for the Black Masque.”
    He pouted at her. “I drove all the way home so I can take care of you and you’re too busy for me?”
    Polly hadn’t been paying attention to his face, distracted by an email that she was reading and snapped her head up to look at him. “I’m sorry!” she said. “I can probably try to rearrange things with everyone and I’ll bet Joss could call Nate. Maybe you both could join us for lunch.”
    “I’m kidding you, Polly. I came back because I love you. You don’t have to feel any other obligation.”
    “Whew,” she said, dropping her head into her hands. “I thought you’d totally lost your mind, but if I needed to feel guilty, I was going to at least try to muster some up.”
    “That’s my girl,” he laughed. “Actually, I came over to look at your doors in the broad daylight. I really don’t want to pull them off and leave you exposed, especially when things are a bit strange around here.”
    “I’m not really comfortable with that either. The yellow hue isn’t all that awful, is it?”
    “It’s not awful. I won’t to make any decisions about it today. We’ll leave them alone until I can come up with a good plan.”
    “Thanks.” She picked up her coffee cup to take a drink and it was empty. “Do you want some coffee? I’m a little low here.”
    “No, I’m good. I think I’ll take off. Len Specek had asked me last week to come over and look at some old furniture in his