Chapter 17

Despite how little sleep she'd gotten, Lexie was up at her usual predawn hour to begin her baking. Killian kept her company for a little while, but then he insisted on leaving. He told her he didn't want to subject her to the gossip if people saw him leaving in the daylight hours.

"I don't care," she kept telling him.

"But I do." He'd kissed her on the tip of her nose. "There'll be enough tongues wagging as it is. Hell, I'd stand in your window nude with a sign saying Lexie Rocks if I didn't know what the fallout would be. I'm thinking of you, darlin'."

She wanted to tell him she was tired of being such a good girl. It was boring. Maybe boring was what she'd wanted when she first came home and opened the coffee shop, but she was ready for a little spice. And Killian Walker was definitely her choice from the spice rack, even if he would be gone by the end of the week.

But what if I can get him to change his mind?

She gave herself a mental smack. Trying to nail him to Red Creek was