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surprise.
    "I just felt like making you dinner."
    She kissed him then headed out toward the table beaming. "Wow, this is something."
    Rushing ahead of her, he pulled a chair out and motioned for her to take a seat.
    "Thank you." She nodded politely.
    Grabbing the napkin off her plate, he placed it carefully on her lap.
    She gave him a skeptical look. "Really, what's going on?"
    "Just an expertly prepared dinner with fancy cocktails."
    "Sounds amazing, but where's Kaylie?"
    "Staying at your mother's for the night."
    "We have the whole house to ourselves?"
    "Uh-huh."
    "Well, make my drink a double then." She flashed him a grin.
    "I've been experimenting a little at the bar today. In fact, I've already taste tested a few." He waved his hands around comically as if he might already be drunk.
    She giggled. "I'll have what you're having."
    "Cool, it's this thing I call a double cosmo slush– crushed ice, double the cranberry, double the vodka and, of course... double the fun."
    "Like I said I'll take two of those."
    "Wow a quadruple cosmo slush." He flashed her a fake look of apprehension. "I've never made one of those."
    "I think you'll manage."
    He smiled. "Be right back, but there's fresh baked bread in that basket. It should still be warm."
    "You baked bread." She scoffed.
    "No, sorry, I actually have a life. It's from the bakery." He frowned. "But I did make everything else."
    "Baby, I can't wait."
    Jim hurried into the house and Victoria enjoyed a warm roll as she listened to the whirl of their shaved ice maker. Moments later he delivered a drink to her hand and placed his on the table. He waited with his eyebrows raised as she took a sip.
    "Amazing."
    Smiling, he turned on his heels and skipped toward the house.
    "How many drinks did you say you already had?" Chuckling, she called out to him and he ignored the question.
    When he returned thirty seconds later, he carried two large bowls. He placed one in front of her and said proudly, "One blue cheese pecan chopped salad... with extra blue cheese crumbles."
    "Oh my..."
    "Uh-huh..." He moved to his seat and they each took a bite.
    She moaned happily as her eyes fluttered closed for a moment. "You made this?"
    "I did." He held his head high.
    "I'd say someone's earned himself some special attention tonight."
    "Just wait until you taste the main course."
    "Wait, are you the main course?" She widened her eyes.
    "I wish..." He grinned. "No, I'm dessert."
    "I'll be sure to leave room then."
    The two went to work on their salads, bread and drinks as the small talk and never ending sexually suggestive banter continued. Afterward, Jim returned with a drink refill then a cream based bowl of soup dusted on top with a decorative orange spice.
    She took a sip of her drink then gazed down to her bowl using her spoon to inspect the vegetables and huge chunks of seafood inside. "Is it really?"
    "Yep, seafood chowder just like we had in Maine."
    "How did you... ?"
    "Well, let me tell you it's not easy to find five, count 'em five, different kinds of fresh seafood and not that crap from the grocery store. I had to go to the dock and two seafood shops."
    She lifted a spoon to her mouth, blew gently on it then slipped it into her mouth. Running her tongue around between her lips, she smiled. "It's... incredible."
    "I know. I've been sampling it for the last hour."
    She raised her spoon from the bowl, spotted a huge chunk of lobster and smiled. "Lobster too?"
    "And scallops, shrimp, muscles and clams."
    She nodded to him, impressed. "You know that thing you like that I do up in the bedroom?"
    "Which thing? The, um, thing you do when I'm sitting in the chair or the thing you do when I'm standing?"
    "Standing."
    "Ohhh... I like that."
    "I'm going to do that..." She widened her eyes. "Twice."
    He pointed to his glass. "Well then, I'd better make that my last cocktail."
    "Probably."
    The happy couple went back to work on their seafood chowder until it was gone.
    Picking up her drink, Victoria sat