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costume room, Bunny couldn’t stop thinking about what might happen Friday night with both Cory and Jack. For the first time in months, she looked forward to something besides getting up and going to work. Bunny lifted a rose and twirled it between her fingers. Ever since last night, she hadn’t been able to sit still. Her entire body was twitchy, needy, wanting something, and not sure she could wait until Friday to get it.
    Mona pried the long stem from her fingers and laid it on the counter. “It’s about time you had a little romance in your life.”
    Bunny snorted. “What are you talking about? I’m surrounded by romance.” She waved her hand at the flower arrangements set in neat little groups, ready to be delivered that day.
    “You’re surrounded by other people’s romances. You deserve a little romance of your own.” Mona frowned. “When was the last time someone sent you flowers or paid you a compliment?”
    Compliments? Her cheeks heated as she recalled Jack’s and Cory’s words last night. She had no intention of telling Mona. Not now. Not when this was all so new and she didn’t know where it was going.
    Mona snapped her fingers in front of Bunny’s face. “Earth to Bunny. Well?”
    Bunny blinked, coming back to the flower shop and Mona. “Well what?”
    “When was the last time anyone gave you flowers?” Mona demanded.
    “Flowers?” Bunny’s brows furrowed. “Not since my wedding, and I paid for those myself.”
    Mona propped her fists on her hips. “Wow, your love life is worse than mine.”
    Bunny jumped on her comment, hoping for a reprieve on airing her own pathetic shortcomings in the love department. “Speaking of which, when was the last time someone sent you flowers? And when was the last time you went on a date? Seems to me you were the one all turned off by guys. What was it you said…?” Bunny tapped her chin. “Oh, yeah. You were considering being a lesbian.”
    Mona’s lips pressed together. “And if I recall, you turned me down.” She shrugged. “I can’t even get a date with a girl.”
    The tension leached out of Bunny’s shoulders, and she hugged Mona. “We really are pathetic, you know.”
    “At least you have a date.” Mona hugged her. “Don’t back out on it. Even if it doesn’t come to anything, at least you’re getting out there. Maybe this date will encourage you to be open to others. The added bonus is that I get to live vicariously through you.”
    “That might prove disappointing.” Bunny lifted the rose again and handed it to Mona. “When are you going to get back in the saddle?”
    Mona let out a long sigh. “I don’t know. But after seeing all those guys last night without their shirts on… Well let’s just say my vibrator got a workout and it wasn’t nearly as satisfying as I’d hoped.”
    Exactly Bunny’s sentiment. After Cory had touched her…there…she hadn’t been the same. Even the memory of his fingers stroking her set her off on the road to orgasm.
    The bell over the front door jangled. Tom Weinfelt entered, there to pick up the spray of daisies he’d requested for his wife’s grave. The ninety-three-year-old man shuffled through the door. “Mornin’, Ms. Bunny.”
    “Mornin’, Mr. Weinfelt.”
    Mona jumped, her gaze shooting to the clock over the worktable. “You have a customer, and I have to go. Mrs. Franzten’s cut-and-’do won’t wait. Have lunch with me?”
    “Can’t. I have a lot of deliveries to make today, and I need to start arranging flowers for a wedding.”
    “Oh, yeah, your jerk-face ex and his bubble-headed bride.” Mona shook her head. “I still can’t believe you agreed to do it.”
    Bunny sighed. “I still owe him eight grand. I had to do it in trade for some of my debt.”
    “Slime ball. You put him through dental school. You don’t own him a thing.”
    “Yeah, but it’s a community property state. He got half of everything. Including my business. And until I get enough to pay him