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Lisa’s hands froze in the midst of adjusting the light meter. She knew exactly what he meant. But she didn’t like the idea that she’d triggered that experience for him.
The sight of him, so much more solid than her memories, so much more handsome than she’d imagined, had nearly been too much for her. After all, he’d either been in full firefighter gear or in a hospital bed the two times she’d seen him. “Is … um, is that what happened to you?”
“Yeah. It did. It’s not a bad thing, though. It might even be good. I don’t know. All I know is you are where you are, and you go from there. One step at a time. Maybe I’ll stumble across the perfect woman along the way.”
She recognized that devil-may-care cheerfulness, as if his whole body held a twinkle. That spirit had called to her under tha
