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like you wanted to. Now it’s time to work on those other dreams.”

      “Not so easy, bud.” Jonah tried to act like it was no big deal, but his friend’s words made him bleed from a wound so deep, there was no measure of it. Ben had no idea what he’d said. Jonah cleared his throat, determined to make the best of it. After all, he had nothing to complain about, not really. Not when he was alive and well unlike—He stopped that thought. “These days, I’m a busy man and getting busier by the minute. I just got a huge order from that classy sister of yours. I’m making a bedroom set for your niece.”

      “So that’s what all that invoice talk was about.”

      “You think I’m interested in her?”

      “It’s the Christmas season.” Ben seemed to dodge the question. “You never miss the tree lighting so you’ll be there anyway. You might as well come along with us tonight. Make an evening of it.”

      “That’s your family time. I won’t intrude on that.”

      “You’re practically part of the family.” Ben gestured to the window. “Besides, I’m not the only one who would like you to come along.”

      There was Mia, sitting in the passenger seat, her hands clasped tightly together. Their gazes met and her eyes widened. There was no mistaking the single word she was saying. “Please, please, please, please.”

      Ben chuckled. “I think she’s serious.”

      “Sure looks like it.” Okay, so he was a little tempted to change his mind.

      “You and Debra seemed to get along pretty well,” Ben said.

      Debra. She wasn’t watching him as she backed her top-of-the-line SUV out of the parking spot. Hard to tell exactly what she thought of him, but he knew one thing. She was out of his league. Which was too bad. He liked her—then a powerful wave of old guilt crashed through him. He had no right to take that thought any further.

      “Well, buddy, at least think about coming with us. Olivia will be disappointed, too. You don’t want to let down two little girls now, do you?”

      “When you put it like that, you know I can’t.”

      “I know.” Ben grinned and because his business cell phone chose that moment to ring, he answered it.

      Debra’s SUV pulled into traffic and out of his sight, but the woman seemed to linger in his thoughts. Grimly, he went back to work, ignoring the sting of an emotion he would not admit or give name to.

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