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WELL-TRAINED IN THE art of reading the subtle cues of body language, FBI Special Agent Vaughn Roberts was quite certain this date was going down in flames

On the upside, it wasn’t his date that was crashing and burning Rather, the unfortunate rendezvous was between the attractive auburn-haired woht his eye when she’d walked into the coffee shop twenty o and so for the Guinness record for World’s Longest Story Ever

The wo to appear interested She blinked, stifled a yawn, and then quickly grabbed her coffee and took a sip to cover

Vaughn suessed that this was either a blind date or an online iven the way the woman had looked around the shop when she first arrived, paused, and then walked over to Striped Banker Shirt’s table with a tentative s, that this would be the only date these tould ever have But he gave the wouy continued to ramble on

One of the hn kneas to ask questions Women liked men ere curious about them—and, just as important, they liked men who paid attention to their answers As a man as trained to ask questions and pay careful attention to answers, he had soe in this

Striped Banker Shirt, on the other hand, obviously missed the memo

Going back to his own business, Vaughn pulled out his cell phone and checked his e-er brother, Siirlfriend at a restaurant around the corner for dinner—a dinner he was very curious about

This was his first ti her three months earlier But Simon had mentioned her on hn, Si tooso inherently invited numerous questions from their very traditionallyfor one of her sons to settle down for sohn off as a lost cause—thethoroughly “un-Irish”—she’d pinned all her hopes on Simon

But now here they were, the first tihn to hn was under strict instructions to call his mother with a full report as soon as dinner was over

A hn’s thoughts He glanced up fro had turned for the better

No dice

Striped Banker Shirt was still ra at his own stories, because—obviously—not only was he a good-looking guy in an expensive suit with a knack for scintillating conversation, but he was just so funny, too!

Right

Wouy who’d never had any problehn also knew that a wo to know her specifically And Striped Banker Shirt had failed woefully on that score