Oh, she saw it in his eyes. Hers hooded in response and she slowly bit her lower lip. Her belly clenched with a stab of need. Lord Almighty, she thought and nearly crossed herself. If her brother ever came back to town, which he would and she just didn't know it, he would have another fit on her and she finally started wondering in that moment why she cared about his approval so much when she knew what she wanted, whom she wanted, and why she wanted them. She was also a woman grown with two children and Lorn fit the bill for a good father figure for her children, he was respectable, and he was just a good man and she would be a fool to let him go. And the heat between them? Hell, Pony would never understand it. He was such a damned prude about women unless he was busy with a girl of ill repute that he just wouldn't ever get that a woman had needs too and she wasn't waiting a whole year for Lorn. Nay.

"Steak sounds delicious to me," she said, her mouth watering when her stomach remembered it was hungry. She took his arm and there was a collective sigh from a gaggle of old biddies, as the pair was handsome together. In the meantime, the boxes were off to the Vaughn residence where things would be arranged. The rest of the order would trickle in to her cottage so she could go through things.