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Oops Not the direction she’d wanted the conversation to go Ex-fiancés should best be forgotten She squeezed her sister’s fingers "I’et uess my concern is that you have so much of your life in front of you I want toDavid because it’s what you want and not because of farinned "After all, it would be le"

"I think I can handle a reat multitasker" Mia studied her "Katie, I love hi pressured by the faet hassled every time you walk in the door"

"Tell e of twenty in a fifty-mile radius Well, except for the ordained priests"

"If Grand them hoht man"

Mia smiled "Your own handsome prince?"

"Sure"

"I hope so I found mine"

Katie looked at her sister’s pretty face Contenthtened her eyes

"Of course you’ll be happy with David," she said, wondering why she’d ever thought differently Zach --in his line of work, who could blame hies were forever

Mia collected thea copy of Cosmo in French, and ran up the stairs to her apartment She’d already seen David’s truck parked on the street, so she kneaiting for her She burst into the front door

"We picked out a dress," she announced, tossing herthe door shut behind her

David lay stretched out on the sofa He grinned at her and motioned for her to come closer "Hello to you, too"

"Hello"

She kicked off her Nikes and straddled hi low to kiss hi into his face His eyes were a deep, true blue and azed at them In his arht she was so sether, what they didn’t see was she was always afraid of being just the baby She’d been the baby her whole life, and getting out on her own and growing up hadn’t been easy With David around, she didn’t have to try so hard

"Tell ain and feeling heat fill her body

He nipped her lower lip "Tell me about the dress"

"I can’t You know that It’s a surprise But it’s beautiful and we picked out the fabric and the lace Katie’s going to make the pattern from a couple of different ones In the ?"

"All the lace gets beaded by hand The flower petals are outlined in seed pearls and filled in with little beads It’s e do You know--a tradition"

"Cool" He kissed her jaw "So who is Robert Anderson?"

She raised her head "Who?"

"I asked first He called while you were out There’s aout to LA in a couple of weeks and wanting to know if you’d like to have dinner"

Mia bounced off the sofa to her feet and raced for the ht blinked steadily

"He called!" she crowed "He called, he called, he called"

David sat up slowly "Mia, who’s the guy?"

She spun around and grinned at hiive me that look This isn’t personal It’s about uy I e course I took Re and he said if he got out here, we could hang out He’s willing to write etown and the State Depart but convinced

"David, don’t act like that The e Plus he’s married and I met his wife and they’re a totally cool couple They took me to dinner a couple of times"

David didn’t look convinced

She hurried back to the sofa and squeezed onto his lap "You’re the one I love"

"I don’t like the idea of you having dinner with other guys"

Mia really, really wanted to roll her eyes, but that never led to ful conversation with the opposite sex She also wanted to smack David upside the head Another bad idea Instead, she kissed his face, all the whilephrases like "lovey dovey" and "kissy wissy" It usually worked Just not today

He moved her off his lap and set her on the sofa next to hiht be tall and skinny, but he could sure push her around without breaking a sweat, which was one of the things she really hated about being short

"Mia, I’hed "I’m serious, too, David Robert Anderson is someone who can help rad schools over the su Robert can help If you’re so concerned that it’s more than just that, then cohtened "You wouldn’tthere?"

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