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“So, you going to tell me about the girl in the bar?” Hannah asked.
“I met her six months ago in Hopesville,” Tanner told her. “We spent some time together and then she just left without a word.”
“What? Not even a text?” Hannah asked, looking shocked.
“No, I was supposed to meet her that last night, but she never turned up. Never answered my calls or texts.”
“That’s so rude! And then she just turns up where you live? That’s a weird coincidence.” Hannah frowned.
“Or not a coincidence at all,” Raid said.
“You think she came back for you?” Hannah asked Tanner. “Maybe to apologize?”
“No.” He shook his head, thinking it over. “I don’t think that’s it. I told her about Haven, so I don’t see how it can be a coincidence that she’s here. And if she came to apologize, she’d have searched me out immediately, right? She has my number. Why not just text? Why get a job here?”
Hannah frowned. “That’s true. Do you know where she’s staying?”
“Linc’s guesthouse,” Raid said. “And she has a baby.”
“What?” Hannah gave Tanner a shocked look.
“Not mine,” he said quickly.
“Linc’s?” Raid guessed. “Since she’s staying with him?”
He frowned at that idea. But no . . . Linc wouldn’t have his baby in the guesthouse.
“No. I don’t think so. I don’t know how he fits into this.”
“But you’re going to find out,” Raid said.
“Yeah, but I don’t think she’ll be receptive to telling me,” Tanner said as he poured himself another coffee.
“Well, why not?” Hannah demanded. “She owes you.”
“Because she’s scared of me.”
“Why would she fear you?” Raid asked.
Because he’d been a bit of a dick. But he’d thought he was going to marry that girl . . . and then she’d left him.
“I don’t know . . . but perhaps I should give her some time to get settled.”
But what if she left again?
Fuck. He didn’t know what to do.
“I’m gonna head to the Ranch,” he said. “Thanks for the coffee and for letting me crash last night. I’ll see you later.”
He needed some time to think about this.
* * *
“You know, Tanner is a good man. And he doesn’t deserve you treating him this way.”
Lilac jolted, dropping the packet of cold medicine. She turned to look at the woman speaking to her. She looked familiar.
Then she realized she’d been with Tanner at Dirty Delights the other night. Not the woman he’d been with, the one sitting with Raid.
