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now.
    “You heard what she said. You can’t turn me down for dinner. Be at my house at eight,” he said, giving her a quick kiss before he walked away, leaving her standing there still feeling the effects of their intimacy.

 
     
    CHAPTER SEVEN
     
      “Ok Grace, spill it! I want to know every detail! What has been going on? Obviously, I have missed a lot,” Paige said as she sank into the couch.
      “There is nothing to tell. He just moved in a couple weeks ago. It was your sister who made me talk to him when he came into Geddy’s for a drink.”
    It was Autumn who started their conversation, but there was no denying the chemistry. One look at Tyler and Grace felt her stomach flip flop and her insides quiver. She couldn’t help but stare at him at the restaurant that night, and now, after he just kissed her like no other man had, she didn’t know how she was going to keep her eyes off him, let alone her hands. Grace walked into the kitchen, setting her keys on the counter as she turned to look at Paige. “If someone has anything to say here, it’s you,” she said, pointing at her sister, who sank deeper into the couch.
      Stretching her arms and yawing, Paige looked around her old house. “All of the sudden I am so tired. I think I am going to bed.”
    She was getting up as Grace walked over to her. “Paige, sit down. Something is going on. I just know it.”
    They both sat down together, and Paige shifted uncomfortably, trying to find the words to tell her sister what was going on in her life.
      “It’s your turn to spill it sister,” Grace said, nudging her sister’s knee with her.
      It was now or never, thought Paige. She started from the beginning.
         “Dominic broke up with me. He said he needed to explore other options in his life right now; the timing was off; and the relationship wasn’t working anymore.” Grace felt her heart tighten. She knew exactly how it felt to be dumped, and it was something she never wished any of her sisters had to go through.
      “Was this recent?” she said, as she scooted closer to Paige.
      “About four months ago. I wanted to call and tell you, but I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t want to tell you because . . . well . . . I didn’t want to hear I told you so . Everyone who knew how we met told me it wouldn’t last. Oh, but that’s not the best part of everything.” Paige took a deep breath as she thought of the last couple of weeks and the disaster her life had turned into. “My apartment building burned down and I lost everything. I have been living in a hotel room up until now.”
      She heard a small gasp come from Grace. She didn’t dare look up. She could feel the shame on her face for allowing her life to fall apart;a life she worked so hard to build away from Bar Harbor, Maine. Now, there was no other place she would rather be.
      “Paige, you should have called me when this happened. I would have told you to come home that night.
    There is no reason for you to be living in a hotel room! This is your home, just as much as it is Autumn’s and mine.” She hugged Paige. Her heart ached for her sister, because she knew how much she loved Dominic and her life in New York. 
      “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. I was devastated when he left. I didn’t know what to do, and I didn’t want to tell anyone. I hoped he would come back, but he never did.” Paige wiped a tear from her eye as she hugged her sister a little tighter. Grace was like a mother to her. She always took care of her and made sure she and Autumn had everything they needed. Most important, she was always there when they needed a shoulder to cry on.
     
      Paige wiped her tears and turned to Grace. “Enough about the mess I call my life. How are you doing? I take it Denny is out of the picture since you were obviously tongue wrestling with Mr. McDreamy down the street!” she said in a mocking voice.
      Grace could feel her face heat up from embarrassment