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voice on the other end.
    “Hi, Mom. You doing anything tomorrow morning?”
    “No, not that I
know of, why?”
    “You want to do some cooking. I
mean it’s just breakfast stuff like eggs and pancakes at McQuire’s ?”
    “I’d love to.
    “Great you’ll be working with Eva McQuire she’ll show you the ropes.”
    “The doctor?”
    “Yes, I ran into her in the
Singing Cowboy.”
    Accidentally on purpose.
    “Well, that’s wonderful I do
hope…
    He switched the phone to his
other ear knowing what was coming next. She was going to play matchmaker and he didn’t want Eva to hear because that would make him
embarrassed yet again. Twice in one day would be a record.
    Alex raised his eyebrows as his
mother rattled on. Eva smiled and winked at him.
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    Eva was guessing that Alex’
mother was a lot like hers. What would they be like if they ever got together?
Gossiping, plotting, and possibly consoling one another for having still single
adult children.
    “Eva, I’m proud that you’ve
finally become a real doctor, but I think you should start looking for a
husband and have some babies. I’m sure I don’t have to
tell you about a woman’s clicking clock. You’ll spend all your time focusing on
your career and then bam, before you know it, no eggs left.”
    It was something she had and was
still taking into consideration, but she wasn’t going
to settle for a second-best guy just to have babies. The man she married, the
man who fathered those babies, was going to be perfect for her.
    “What time would you like Mom to
arrive?”
    Alex’s question jarred her out of
her train of thought.
    “Is six a.m. too early?”
    “ How’s six sounding?” he asked.
    Perfect he mouthed back
to Eva.
    “Tell her to wait out front and
I’ll let her in the front so she doesn’t need to go around to the back alley.”
    “You heard that, Mom? Okay, and
yes, I’ll stop by too.”
    Eva smiled, almost laughed. Yes,
a lot like her mother. Well, at least she’d be seeing
Alex again in the morning.
    “You want to play cashier again?”
she asked him when he pressed the end call button on his phone.
    “I might just do that. How about
using the tip jar to collect for cancer research?”
    “That’s a great idea. I gave
today’s tips to my twin nephews for their college fund.”
    “That’s another neat idea, and if
you’d rather collect more for them I totally understand.”
    “No, I think cancer research is a
wonderful idea.”
    She wasn’t just saying that. During her residency, she’d lost
three patients to various types and hoped during her time as a doctor they’d
find a cure so people like Alex wouldn’t have to lose loved ones.
    “I guess as we both have to be up
bright and early we should head home to bed…separately I mean,” Eva quickly
added. While she’d love to take him home and get
beneath the sheets with the hunk, she’d never slept with a guy on the same day
she’d met him. Plus , Alex was a patient, if only a
summer one. No, if they were going to get horizontal, she’d let him make the first move and wait a little longer.
    He smiled. “I wasn’t thinking
anything else. Okay, I was, but you opened yourself up to that one.”
    She smiled. She’d enjoyed his company. The sheriff made the ideal dinner companion.
    “Maybe we can do this again?” he
asked.
    They both stood and then headed
outside and to the parking lot where he walked her to her car.
    “Sure, I’d like that.”
    “How about tomorrow night at the other steak place in town.”
    “Is it a date because I’m not
sure going out with patients is a smart idea. I mean
next time I examine you it might be even more awkward than it was today.”
    “Could it get any more awkward
than it was?”
    Eva shook her head and then
laughed.
    “I’m Dr. Jackson’s patient not
yours.”
    “That’s true.”
    “And the next time you examine me
it’s going to be as my date, not my doctor.”
    He leaned over and kissed her
before she had a