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The small, intimate café that Cam had chosen for their second
dinner date three months earlier had become their favourite eating
spot. No white tablecloths or snowy napkins, no formally clad waiters
hovering. Just a friendly waitress by the name of Deedee whom
they had come to know well, and who served the homestyle dinners
with as much pride and flourish as if she had cooked them herself.
She stood before them now, smiling. “Where have you folks been?
I thought you’d left the country. Well, it’s none of my business, but I
missed you. I’ll tell you a secret ….” She lowered her voice and leaned
forward. “The roast beef is extra scrumptious tonight.”
“You’ve sampled it then, have you, Deedee?” Cam said with a grin.
The young woman shrugged. “Well, you know ….”
“Your recommendation is good enough for me, Deedee,” Tyne
said.
“And for me.” Cam handed the menus to the waitress.
“Thank you. Nice to have you back with us.” Deedee hurried away.
Cam turned his gaze on Tyne. “You look good enough to eat yourself.”
He reached across the table for her hand. “The mountain air
was good for you.”
She nodded her head and smiled, but did not withdraw her hand
as she had done so often in the past. The warmth of Cam’s hand was
comforting and, she realized with some alarm, surprisingly intimate.
“How’s the baby? Have you seen her since you got home?”
“Little Tyne? Oh, she’s as lovely as ever. I babysat again last night.
Jeannette and Guy had been waiting for me to get back.”
“You see?” Cam smiled and squeezed her hand. “No one can do
without you … least of all me.”
She laughed quietly as she withdrew her hand. To save herself the
necessity of replying, she picked up her water glass and drank.
He waited until she put the glass down. “Have I reason to hope
that you feel the same about me?”
She looked at him steadily. “You are very important to me, Cam,
and I really have missed you these past two weeks.”
He smiled ruefully. “But not to the point of not being able to do
without me.”
Tyne sighed. “I … I don’t know, really I don’t. That’s a difficult …
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