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myself a cup of coffee.
     
    “To whom?” he said, with his lips still quirking at the edges. I was suddenly very worried.
     
    “You know full well to whom! The two of you didn’t have words did you?”
     
    He smiled then and said, “Don’t worry. I was nice. I’m a very nice person, you know.”
     
    I narrowed my eyes and said, “You promise?”
     
    “Yes, I promise. What kind of ass do you think I am? I am a nice guy. I even poured him a cup of coffee.”
     
    “Aw, thank you.” I was relieved. I didn’t want anything else, especially something silly, to come between Seth and I.
     
    “I have to say though; I have no idea what you see in him. I mean, I guess he’s a good-looking guy… but lots of us are…”
     
    I sat down with my coffee and took a sip. Looking at him over the rim of the cup I said, “You know the feeling of being in someone’s embrace that makes the world stop on its axis? There is no time, it just stops. Your mind is at peace and everything you feel for this person is pure and unselfish… you feel completely free for the first time in your life. When you hold them, you feel safe and warm and you feel like you’re home.”
     
    Grant was looking at me funny then, like he was trying to arrange his words before he said them. Lately he’d had a look in his eye that I just couldn’t interpret. It was somewhere between pain and lust. I was pretty sure he didn’t lust after me. He’d never tried anything, as many times as we’d been alone together. Surely he didn’t develop a crush all of a sudden. He finally said, “Yeah… I’m afraid that I do know that feeling.” I was getting a really strange vibe from him this morning. He’d always told me that he’d never been in love. I wondered if there was something he hadn’t told me.
     
    “That’s how I feel about Seth,” I told him.
     
    He put his coffee cup down and then he smiled at me. It looked forced at first, but then in his silly voice he said, “Tell me you’ve decided to name your first born after me.”
     
    I laughed at the image of me telling Seth that and said, “No offense, but I’m not so sure Seth would be happy about that. Besides, we haven’t even discussed marriage, much less children.” That look was there again. The pain. “Is everything okay with you?” I asked him. “How is Juniper?”
     
    His grin was fake as he said, “She’s amazing. Maybe I’ll rush to the altar before you do.” With that, he got up and kissed me on top of the head. He let his lips linger there for a moment and then he said, “I’ll see you later. I’m off for my run.” I watched him go with my brows drawn together, still wondering what was going on with him.
     
    I spent the rest of the day “off” cleaning the house and doing laundry. I had never felt the need to hire someone to do things like that for me, but lately with all that was going on, it had suffered. I was running out of undergarments. Grant didn’t come back and I began worrying more about him throughout the day. I knew it was silly. He’s a grown man. He and I had never checked up on each other… but he’d been so strange lately. I was thinking about calling him when my phone rang. It was Seth, and at the sound of his voice, all my worries were gone and I was happy again.
     
    “Hi baby,” he said. His voice was so sexy and the sound of him calling me “baby” sent a shudder down my spine.
     
    “Hey gorgeous, how was your day?” I hoped he had a good day, but I also hoped it was a productive one.
     
    “Well, I spent the morning with Harlan. He called all of the shareholders and told them about our plan. They’re all on board. We’re not sure who has been sharing things with Liz, but with as much information as they had in the disclosure file, he says it’s safe to assume we have a mole. We can’t withhold from the shareholders, so we just have to say a prayer it’s not one of them and we won’t mention anything at the staff