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The next morning, she got a minor shock at the Mercury News-Gazette. A bouquet of tiger lilies sat on her desk in a curved glass vase. Tiger lilies! Who could possibly know that she liked tiger lilies? Unless Chase had somehow figured it out and was trying to work his way …
She grabbed the vase and marched down the hallway toward the break room, where the interns and copy assistants hung out. Chase was there alone, feet propped on a metal folding chair, elbow resting on the table as he scanned his phone.
She placed the vase of flowers on the table next to him, jarring his elbow from its position. "I reject your flowers," she told him. "That sort of thing is not going to work on me, and how did you know about tiger lilies anyway?"
He straightened up and pulled his feet off the chair w
