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if she found out that Ethan was considering dating another woman, she would stop all her nonsense and acknowledge how she feels about him.”
    Olivia is stunned, “Wow, Rachel. I don’t know what to say.”
    “I didn’t know what else to do. I just wanted to try and snap you out of it,” she says apologetically. “Olivia, I thought you needed a reality check. He’s not going to hang around forever waiting for you. It’s time that you start moving forward with him.”
    Silently, Olivia lets that sink in. Shannon says nothing. Although she does understand Rachel’s motive, she doesn’t agree with her methods.
    “Olivia,” Cindy’s voice calls out as she and two other servers approach the table.
    Olivia forces a smile. “Hi, Cindy! I’m surprised you’re still talking to me after last night.”
    Cindy stands beside the table and rolls her eyes, “Oh, it got a lot more interesting after you left. Some guy came flying through the bar and punched Ethan right in the face.”
    “WHAT?” Olivia is shocked, “Tell me it wasn’t Noah. Please.”
    “No, it wasn’t Noah,” Cindy says.
    “Who was it then?” Olivia asks.
    Pretending not to know the answer Rachel shrugs when she looks at her. But Shannon… well, she knows something.
    “Shannon?” Olivia asks, “Who was it?”
    Shannon wrinkles her nose and fusses with her hair before frowning, “It was Carter.”
    “Carter?” she gasps, “Carter hit Ethan? Why?”
    “He was angry at Ethan for what he had done and furious that he let you walk off, unsafe and alone.”
    Cindy straightens her apron. “After he punched him, I heard him tell Ethan that he didn’t deserve you.”
    Olivia groans and puts her hands over her face. “What was he thinking?” she mumbles.
    “Olivia, I know you’re angry with Ethan, right now,” Cindy says hesitantly. “But there’s something you need to hear. This will only take a minute but it’s important.” Cindy looks over at Tammy who jumps in to the conversation.
    “Well, we were talking here, all us girls, about you two breaking up and how sad it is. Ethan used to tell us such romantic stories about you two. We were all jealous.”
    “Really? Like what?” Olivia asks, looking suspiciously back and forth between her two friends, as if they have somehow orchestrated an intervention.
    “One night, a few weeks ago, the bar had gotten pretty quiet and Mr. O’Connell… Ethan was helping to restock the bar. One of the girls mentioned that he looked tired. He told us that he had been really busy and hadn’t been able to see you for a couple of days. He said that he missed you so much that he couldn’t sleep so he took his blanket and pillows outside onto the deck. He laid there looking up into the stars, matching each one with a different reason as to why he was falling in love with you. He said he did that for hours… until he ran out of stars.”
    Olivia looks at Rachel and then over at Shannon, speechless.
    Jen pipes up, “It’s true, Olivia. He started talking about going home to Ireland and how much he missed it. He said he wanted to take you home with him to meet his friends and his family. Then he said he couldn’t wait to introduce his father to the woman he was going to marry.”
    Olivia’s face loses a little bit of color. She starts to feel that tight squeezing, like a fist around her heart.
    “But it wasn’t just what he said; it was the way he looked when he said it. There were tears in his eyes.”
    Holding her breath as a shiver runs through her, Olivia is certain that her heart stopped beating for several moments.
    “We thought that it was important that you hear that,” Cindy says to Olivia. “He can be a real tyrant as a boss sometimes, but the man really loves you.”
    “Thank you,” Olivia says quietly, feeling extremely overwhelmed.
    “Miss James? Olivia James?” A male voice inquires as he approaches the table.
    “Yes?”
    “I’m so sorry to interrupt your lunch,” the courier