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about his father before."
     
    "Maybe that's the problem. Maybe he feels like you won't talk about your husband because it's so upsetting. But maybe he needs to talk about it."
     
    "I think you might be in the wrong career field. Maybe you need to be a psychologist," she said nudging him with her shoulder. A bolt of electricity moved through his body when she touched him. She was petite in frame, but he felt immense power coming from her, and he wasn't sure what to do with it.
     
    "Nah, I think I'll stick with real estate. Why don't you go talk to Leo, and I'll give you guys some privacy?" he said standing up. She stood up with him, and brushed off her clothes.
     
    "Thank you. You're not such a jackass after all," she said smiling.
     
    "You thought I was a jackass?" he said.
     
    "Well, that's the only word I can say in polite company." With that, she smiled at him and turned around and started walking towards her son. And Jackson had a really bad feeling that he was about to get caught up in the whirlwind that was Rebecca Evans.
     
    ***
     
    After the embarrassing episode on Thanksgiving, Rebecca tried to avoid any of the Parker family. She even sent Adele Parker an apology note for ruining her Thanksgiving dinner. Even though she had talked to Leo on the beach that afternoon, it didn't heal any of the rifts between them. Hell, she didn't even really know what the rifts were.
     
    Thankfully, Leo was back at school and she could get back to the business of running her coffee shop to take her mind off her troubles. The truth was she was getting really tired of going to bed alone every night. Twelve years had been long enough, but she didn't know how to get back into the dating scene. She felt like she would compare every man to Tom.
     
    He had been her perfect match. Smart, sexy and successful, and he made her feel safe. Until the day that he was no longer there to make her feel safe. But she was tired of bearing the responsibility of life all by herself. She had no one to lean on, no soft place to fall after a long hard day.
     
    And she had to admit that Jackson Parker would be a worthy dating partner if only he lived in January Cove. And if he was interested in her at all. It had been so long since she had dated anyone that she couldn't tell the signals anymore. Things had changed a lot on the dating scene, and she didn't want to assume that someone was flirting with her or was interested in her if they weren't. She didn't need an embarrassing episode on top of everything else she had going on in her life.
     
    It was early morning, and she started scrubbing the milk nozzle on the cappuccino machine when she heard the doorbell chime as the first customer of the day came in.
     
    "Welcome to Jolt," she said as she turned around. Then she saw him. "Jackson."
     
    "Good morning, Rebecca," he said with a smile. It was certainly a different face than he had the other day when he came into her coffee shop the first time.
     
    "What are you doing here?" There was something about Jackson Parker that did something to her. She felt the nervousness rising from the core of her being, and she wasn't sure why. He was plenty handsome, for sure, but she'd been around handsome men in her life before.
     
    "What am I doing here? In a coffee shop?" He raised his eyebrow at her and smiled.
     
    "Of course. Of course. What can I get for you?" she said nervously trying to figure out what to do with her hands. She finally settled on grabbing a dish towel and wiping up invisible liquid on the counter.
     
    "Just black coffee." She nodded and walked away to pour the coffee while Jackson stood at the counter. She could feel his eyes staring at the back of her head, and the little hairs on her neck went up. Why was he looking at her like that?
     
    "Here you go. Anything else?" she asked. He looked at her for a moment and then looked down at his coffee before finally speaking.
     
    "Yeah. Actually, I wanted to ask you a question." Now she was