Page 6 of This Feeling

Good Lord, were these two adults or children who couldn’t stand up to their mommies?

“I’m glad to know you can openly admit that,” I said ruefully. “That was one of the things that always bugged me about you. You let your mother walk all over you. But you and Crystal both need to grow up and tell your mothers to shove off. I mean, you could do it withme, so why not Mommy dearest?”

He shot me a dirty look. “I just need more time, Harper.”

“Time for what, Sean?”

His gaze turned earnest. “I think…I think…Caroline might be attracted to me, but she won’t make any kind of move.”

“I would hazard a guess that’s because she’s dating someone?”

Sean ignored me. “If we start dating again, it would hold my mother off and…”

Sean’s words trailed off.

“Ahh,” I said, as I leaned back over the counter. “You think it might make Caroline jealous.”

“Not so much jealous, but you know what they say. You always want what you can’t have.”

“Sean, there is no guarantee that this would work. And knowing how much your mom doesn’t like me, do you think she’d accept that we’re dating again?”

When his cheeks turned red, I slowly straightened again. “You already told her we’re dating again, didn’t you?”

He scrunched up his face as he shrugged. “I might have.”

I spun around and threw my hands up in the air. “Gah! Sean, I could kill you right now!”

“I know! I know!” He made his way around to me and took my hands in his. “I messed up, Harper. Iknow. I’m so sorry, and I’ll do anything to make this up to you.”

“You lied and told your mother we’re dating again. Did you ever think that I might be involved with someone?”

His face went white. “Are you?”

Shrugging, I replied, “Well, no…but I could be! I might even like someone, and be getting ready to make a move.”

He raised his brows. “Do you like someone?”

For some reason, an image of Sean’s older brother, Declan, popped into my mind. I wasn’t even sure why; I hadn’t seen him in nearly five years. Not since Sean and I had started dating.

I shook the image away and cleared my throat. “That’s none of your business.”

“Come on, Harper. I’ll doanything!”

I raised a brow. “Anything?”

“You name it, I’ll do it.”

A slow grin crept across my face. “I want two season tickets for the New York Giants.”

His eyes went wide. “What?”

Folding my arms over my chest, I nodded. “That’s what I want. I’ll be nice and say Terrace Center.”

“That’s like four-thousand dollars!”

I gave a one-shoulder shrug. “You broke up with me in public, and everyone in this town looked at me like I’d just lost my favorite puppy for days because of it. People whispered behind my back about howsadit was that you didn’t see me as marriage material, Sean. I actually had people calling, ordering flowers to be sentto me…here at the flower shop!”

He grimaced.

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