Chapter 117: Declan

He knocked on the door and then stepped back, clutching his bouquet of late-blooming irises to his chest. With a name like Iris, she'd either love the flower or hate it, but luckily, Declan knew which one from their high school days. Also luckily, Carla at Happy Petals was able to get in a bouquet for him. He hated to think how far she'd had to go to find irises at this time of the year.

Iris opened the door, looking out quizzically and then her mouth dropped open in surprise.

"Declan!" she exclaimed. He could tell she would've expected a grizzly bear before she would've guessed he'd show up, and considering it'd been six days since they'd seen each other at the wedding, he couldn't blame her. It'd taken him time to figure out what to do for their date, and to get irises ordered in. If he was going to talk her into this, he needed something to help sweeten the pot.