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the car parked next to Tessa’s. “Hey.”
    “Are you all right? I tried to stop you on your way out, but you were moving like you were on a mission,” Hailey said, settling her butt against the side of Tess’s car.
    Yeah, on a mission to get the hell out before she ruined every sweet image anyone in Sapphire Falls had of her. “Bryan just…upset me.”
    Hailey nodded. “Got that. What did he say? Or do?”
    Tess focused in front of her instead of on her ex-boss and kind-of friend. Hailey had been the queen bee in Sapphire Falls all her life. She’d always been this cool, put-together, gorgeous, in-charge woman who had intimidated the hell out of Tessa. Hailey was two years older than Tess, Bryan and Ty, and that hadn’t helped the intimidation factor either. Tess had taken the job as Hailey’s assistant when she’d been mayor because Tess was awesome at being the behind-the-scenes girl, making others look good, while Hailey was awesome at being in the spotlight and looking good. They had worked perfectly. Plus, the job had been flexible. And easy. Well, flexible in that she could take off in the middle of the day for her other jobs because she could do a lot of her work at night at home. Easy in that Hailey had taken care of almost everything on her own anyway. The beautiful blonde loved being in charge, and Tess had taken care of the tiny details that drove Hailey crazy.
    Now Hailey headed up the tourism and business development in town—the things she loved and handled almost entirely on her own. The other nitty-gritty detail things she hated fell to their new mayor, TJ Bennett.
    Tess’s job had gotten more demanding since TJ had taken over. Now she actually had to be an assistant. TJ not only didn’t have the time for everything Hailey had done, since he was still farming and had a new wife, he also didn’t have the patience for the little headaches that popped up on a daily basis.
    Tess had needed to get really creative with juggling her other jobs. Fortunately, Hope, the woman who owned the yoga studio and natural healing shop, was TJ’s wife. So she was happy to work around Tess’s other job responsibilities. Delaney Bennett, one of TJ’s sisters-in-law, was Tess’s other boss, and she was great too. She did home remodeling and furniture refinishing, and Tess could do a lot of those projects on weekends if needed.
    She sighed, thinking about all of the balls she was juggling, and looked over at Hailey. “I miss working for you.”
    Hailey smiled at her and tucked her long hair behind her ear. “I was a peach,” she said drily.
    “You were easy.”
    Hailey laughed. “I’m so telling Ty you said that.”
    Tess chuckled. She doubted there was anyone else in the world, including Hailey’s completely head-over-heels husband, Ty, who would use easy as a word to describe Hailey. But she had been in many ways.
    “I also have to tell Ty what Bryan said or did. He wanted to come out here too.”
    Tess shook her head. “It’s nothing Ty needs to be upset about.”
    Although…it might be good for everyone to know Bryan had asked her out and that she’d turned him down.
    Everyone knew she’d pined for Bryan all this time. It might be good for her reputation if they knew she’d moved on. As she’d proved by not melting into a little puddle at his feet when he’d kissed her. Her knees had maybe wobbled, slightly. But if that was how he was going to kiss her, she was safe from making an ass of herself.
    Sweet might describe Tessa, but that was not how she wanted to describe her love or sex life.
    She looked at Hailey. Somehow, she thought she could tell the other woman what she was feeling. They hadn’t really been friends , but when Hailey had last run for mayor—and had lost—a lot of things had come out. Like the fact that Hailey could be vulnerable and sweet. And that she had ADHD, which explained a lot about her personality and habits. And that she did actually know how to ask for help. Tessa