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"Don’t you dare turn around and stare! It will appear that we’re out on the prowl, looking for ree that we both needed to meet new people But then, that was before the American fell into your lap--or into your cafe au lait--and Willem made an appearance in your office But then, what the heck, uy in the lineup"

"Don’t be crass We would never pick up strangers in a bar" Tara started to turn around

"No, no, no! I said that you can’t look now! We most certainly don’t want to be obvious"

"We’re not obvious You just said that ould never be so crass as to pick up strangers in a bar"

"Certainly not We would becohed, "Honestly, Ann, I’m not sure I want to create any new friends to pick up I think I’m lucky that I’ to have ent again, eh?" Ann murmured "Oh, my God!" she breathed suddenly

"What?"

"Tall nicely tall Broad shoulders U him walk across the roo sensuality Well, both of the this wayI think he’s taller than anyone else in here Lord!"

"Lord, what?"

Tara started to turn again

"No! No!" Ann pleaded "He’s co here!"

"He must be soet that I knew him"

Tara let out an explosive little sound of iht her hands, preventing her froot to let go ofto look very bizarre!" Ann drew her hands away

"Fine, okay What does he look like?" Tara asked

"Dark, rich dark hair, like sable, ooh, just shaggy enough to be very artynice fraether And his eyesMy heart is fluttering right now" With a sense of growing dread, Tara frowned at her cousin and spun around on her bar stool She nearly slid off Brent Malone was approaching her

"Hello" He had a bottle of beer in his hand, and his s another in a public place He offered Ann an inquisitive nod of friendly acknowledgment over Tara’s head

"Hello," she replied, the sound of her voice as stiff as her neck

"Hi," Ann said pleasantly, awaiting an introduction She nudged Tara "Well?"

"Brent, my cousin, Ann--my French cousin Ann Ann DeVant, Brent Malone"

"How do you do, a pleasure," Brent said

"Certainly I must admit, I didn’t know that Tara had friends--other than our old family friends, of course-- in the area"

"We just met," Brent said "But the circuolden eyes studied her with rueful a time"

"You never mentioned Mr Malone," Ann said

"Brent," he quickly supplied "I’m with some friends Would you care to join us?"

"Oh, I don’t think that we can," Tara began

"We’d love to," Ann said

"But we’re not staying long," Tara said

"It’s been a long day, which ht’s relaxation," Ann said

"Then do, please, coht her cousin by the back of her shirt "I don’t trust him," she whispered

"Good, you should never really trust anythat one--with you or without you!"

"Ann!"

With little choice, Tara followed her cousin to the table Brent and his coed to find

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