A/N: I'm so far two for two today-that means, if you don't know, I updated Broken! Hehehe-the link should be back in my bio page sometime today so I ask if you have the time-go read it. It's my "baby" but you don't have to be gentle-though I prefer constructive criticism over "this story sucks". It's not that much of a Swordy.

Dodgebart-thank you for the sweet e-mail you sent. I love Chris and am working up a story for him in this story in my head at the moment-give me a chapter or two and you'll see him. I promise.

Everyone enjoy! Until next time-PCGirl.

Rafe walked into Just Heavenly and a sense of calmness filled him—the smells of Christmas time—cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg—reminded him of his mother's kitchen when he was a child and watched her bake.

"I'll be right there," called Alison from the back. She wiped her hands on her apron and walked around the corner with a smile to greet her customer—the smile left her face when she saw who it was. "What do you want?"

Rafe gave her a sheepish grin and scratched the back of his neck, "I was wanting to come to apologize for the way I acted yesterday. It was completely unprofessional and against the oath I took as an officer."

"Thanks, but I'm not the one you should be apologizing to—have you talked to Mr. Morley? You were about to burn him at the stake for helping me out."

The name made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end but he brushed it off and tried to keep the friendly demeanor, "No, not yet."

"Well are you? Or do you just want him to think of you as a complete ass for the rest of your life?"

"I'll say something to him soon—I promise. So how about we start over and act like yesterday never happened? I'm really a nice guy when you get to know me."

"Sure," she said as she watched him grin and walk out of the bakery and come back in. "Hi. Welcome to Just Heavenly—I'm Alison."

"And I'm Rafe," he smiled and then they both started laughing nervously.

Livvie tapped her fingers on the table at the Recovery Room—Jack was obviously not coming in for lunch so she got up to go back to the hospital and grab a bite at the cafeteria.

Her thoughts were somewhere else and her head down searching through her purse so she didn't even see him walk through the door or Frank's call at her to watch where she was going, but when she ran into him and her purse went scattering along the floor she came immediately back to reality.

"I'm sorry—I'm so clumsy," she said, keeping her head down and then a hand covering hers she looked up into the blue eyes looking back at her. "Caleb."

"Yes, you remembered," he grinned as he felt like he could see beyond her brown ones and into her soul that seemed to cry that it was missing something.

"Of course I did," she said as she finished rounding everything up and stood up, straightening the black jacket she had on. "You helped my friend Alison yesterday, of course I'll remember your name."

"Just doing my job. Can you stay for lunch?"

"I—I shouldn't. I was actually going back to work."

"Oh come on—I won't bite," he grinned.

"Hold on," spoke Caleb to Livvie as his cell phone began ringing. "Yeah? Really? No I didn't forget—I just got—sidetracked," he looked at her with a grin. "I'll be at the office in ten minutes—keep the investors on the phone until I get there."

"Business calls?"

"Yeah, I didn't realize the time," he sighed as he got out of his chair.

"Really? Oh my god," she said as she looked at her watch and realized they'd been sitting and talking for hours. "I've got to get to the hospital. It was nice to talk to you though," she said as she smiled and went running out the door. She froze when she saw Jack standing there, "Hey. What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same question," he said, his words cold and harsh as if he'd just found her cheating on him again.

Livvie could see his emotions and thoughts and tried to go at this with the clear conscience she had, "I was waiting on you and as I got up to leave Caleb showed up."

"Who is Caleb?"

"The man that helped Alison yesterday. Remember?"

"Right," said Jack as Caleb walked out of the restaurant and gave a nod to Livvie while still walking. "So you just talked to a complete stranger for two hours, Livvie?"

"It's not like that. He's new to town and I was just telling him of places to hold business functions at," she said with a shrug.

"Business locations?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Hello—he's a business man," she said sarcastically. "Why are you acting like this?"

Jack shrugged at the question and began to walk a circle around Livvie slowly, "Just seems odd you getting to be all friendly with a stranger. Like last summer—."

"You just love to bring that up, don't you?"

"Livvie wait," said Jack as he watched her begin to walk off.

She spun on her heels quickly, "No. I need to get to work—I'm already late and don't have time to have unfounded accusations thrown at me." And with that she went stomping off.

"Hey—you already grab something to eat?" said Jamal as he looked up from the bike he was working on.

"Hmm? No, I forgot—I did see Livvie though, and then managed to stick my foot in my mouth."

He grinned and went back to work on the bike, "How'd you manage that?"

"She was talking to that Caleb guy and I just went all crazy on her—bringing up last summer. You know—the guy did a favor helping catch the robber from the bakery yesterday—and I just turned it all around and made it look like Livvie was going to start cheating again," he said as he stopped to see Jamal had gotten up off the floor and was looking at Jack. "What?"

"You said the bakery got robbed."

"No, I didn't," he said as he went back towards the far side of the shop.

"Yes, you did Jack. Ali's bakery got robbed? When?"

"Wow—I'm two for two on sticking my foot in my mouth today, aren't I? It happened yesterday—but she got all the money back. I—I wasn't supposed to tell you."

"You're right, you shouldn't have—Ali should have though," he said as he wiped the sweat off his brow and threw the wrench he had on the ground. He needed to get this bike finished, but once it was he needed to talk to Ali and see what was causing their lack of honesty with each other.