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lowered her eyes
from their stares while they continued on. Once she felt comfortable again, she
saw him standing there looking around for her.
    When he noticed her, he
walked over and said, “Are you ready?”
    Nodding her head,
Regina followed him to a black Mercedes Benz. Very gentlemanly, he opened the
door for her and held it while she got in, then walked over to his side and
slid in. “I hope you like where we’re going, it’s one of my favorite places.” They
headed out onto the street, to where she didn’t know but was excited to find
out. It didn’t take them long to get to the restaurant and when she saw where
they were, Regina was completely shocked that he brought her here of all
places.
    “Bagwell’s for lunch?
You brought me to Bagwell’s for lunch of all the places in town.” Regina asked
as the valet opened the door and extended his hand to her.
    After handing the young
man his keys, Collin walked over and smiled at her. As he walked her toward the
front door someone opened it for them. When they got inside, Collin smiled as
he saw the hostess at her podium. “Hello Mr. Noonan, I have your table ready.”
    Regina couldn’t believe
how beautiful this place was. She’d read articles in the paper about the dances
and fundraisers they held here, but seeing the pictures was nothing like
actually seeing it live and in color. Collin pulled out a chair for her, which
made her blush at the offering as she sat down, and he scooted her toward the
table.
    “Thank you,” she told
him ever so softly. As he sat down, the hostess gave them their lunch menus.
    “You’re most welcome. Order
anything you like, it’s all on me,” Collin assured her with a wink and a smile.
    Looking over the menu,
her eyes bugged out as she saw the prices of each item. “Are you sure you can
afford this, I mean the prices here are insane.”
    Collin chuckled at her.
“You don’t get the chance to have someone wine and dine you often huh?”
    Regina felt her throat
tighten up a bit at his comment.
    “I’m sorry Regina; I
didn’t mean to say it like that.”
    “Oh that’s okay, I
shouldn’t have let it get to me. I know you were only joking, but no, I don’t
get asked out to lunch unless my friend Maxine offers. Other than that, I tend
to keep to myself.” Giving him a reassuring half smile, she was putting up a
front so he would think she was all right.
    “How about this, from
now on we’ll go out and have lunch together. I don’t normally go out to lunch
unless it’s for business. But other than that, I stay in my office most of the time
and have Nancy bring me something or I order in. Besides, it would be nice to
spend lunch with a lovely lady everyday instead of alone in my office.”
    “Are you serious?”
Regina asked as a waiter brought them some water with lemon to drink.
    “Very serious and we
don’t have to come here, we can go wherever you like to eat. What do you say
about that my dear?”
    The smile he gave her
honestly made her want to melt. She could stare at his face all day.
    “I don’t know Collin.”
    “Why don’t we do it like
this, if you don’t want to keep having lunch with me after this, then we can
stop and you can go back to your old routine?”
    “It’s just that I eat
with my friend basically every day and I wouldn’t want her to be put off by the
fact that I’ve dropped her for you.” She didn’t want to hurt Maxine’s feelings,
especially after all she had done for her over the years.
    “But what about what
you want my dear, like you said, you don’t get asked out to lunch very often so
why not enjoy having it with me?”
    He did have a point,
Regina thought, how many times was she ever going to get the chance to be asked
out by a handsome man? How many times had she been the one left out of doing
things?
    Maxine would just have
to get over it because now it was her turn to have some fun.
    “All right, I’ll have
lunch with you Collin,” Regina said with a small