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“What?” He frowned down at her.

“Your medication. I forgot to give it to you when you ate.” She helped him down the rest of the stairs. “Here. Now that you have some food in your stomach, these will help with the pain.” She half-pushed him into the first chair she saw and then ran into the kitchen to get the bottle of pills and a glass of water.

She watched him swallowed the pills.

“Help me back to the sofa?” he asked, standing up. He swayed slightly and she wrapped her arms around him.

“Are you sure you’re okay?”

“Yeah, I’m just tired now.”

“Don’t you want to go to your bedroom?” she asked, glancing towards the stairs.

He chuckled. “The sofa is sort of my bedroom for now.”

“Right.” She helped him to the sofa. “Do you want anything before I leave?”

“A kiss,” she thought she heard him say. But then he was lying back on the sofa and his eyes were closed. A moment later he was snoring softly.

She placed a soft kiss on his forehead before letting herself out.

It had taken all her willpower not to sneak around the place and look in every room before going. As she drove back down the hillside towards town, she called Sophia.

Her friend answered on the third ring and sounded a little breathless.

Sophia had pushed her to take Max up on the offer to see the lighthouse. Maybe it was the way she’d described their first meeting in the restaurant, or maybe Sophia had seen the spark in her eyes when she talked about Max, but she got the idea that Sophia knew that she was attracted to him.

Either way, Sophia had encouraged her to go see the lighthouse. Not that she’d needed much convincing. She’d been dying to look around. It had been years since she’d been out to the property, and she’d never been inside.

“Did I catch you at a bad time?” Juliette asked.

“No, we were just coming back from taking Loki for a walk on the beach. What’s up?”

“I just wanted to tell you that I finally stopped by the lighthouse for that tour Max offered.”

The phone shifted and Sophia whispered, “And?”

“And, I found him almost unconscious after knocking himself out and putting a knot on his forehead from the kitchen cabinet.” She smiled.

“What?” Sophia’s voice raised. “Is he okay?”

“Yeah, I took him to see Dr. Stevens. He has a clean bill of health. I made him dinner and then he took me to the top of the lighthouse.”

“Ooooh,” Sophia chimed in. “And?”

“And then we talked for a while about the town before we headed back downstairs, where he practically passed out on the sofa.”

“I did warn you that Max moves very slow,” Sophia said.

“It’s not that.” She sighed. “I was really hoping for a full tour of the property.”

Sophia laughed. “Trust me, you’ll get it. Isn’t tomorrow your day off? Why don’t you go see how his head is doing and maybe then get the tour? Palmer and the guys will be there working, so it’s sort of a good opportunity anyway. You can bring them all food or something.”

“I’ll think about it,” she said, remembering her proposal to Max about helping him film and his statement about wanting to kiss her. Which had pretty much turned her knees to jelly.

“Well, I’m going to go hose Loki off. He rolled in something that smells like my brother’s locker.” Sophia chuckled.

“Okay, night.” She hung up.