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"Yes, they were" His eyes were gentle as he said, "She had you"

It took Mary a few seconds to push away the emotion his simple words evoked "Do you have any sisters?"

"Nope, three brothers" Her eyes widened at the thought of all that testosterone in one family as he asked, "Why do you ask?"

"Because if you had had sisters, you would have known that headstrong young girls and theirthat she’d already said too e the subject before her eot the best of her, she asked, "Did you and your brothers grow up here?"

"Born and raised I went to college locally, too, and haven’t really hadabout San Francisco," she said, pausing in her extremely enthusiastic bites of pie, "between Chinatown, Japantown, the French Quarter, the Mission and North Beach, it’s like having the world at your fingertips The people, the traditions, and especially the food" He was so easy to talk to that she realized she’d gotten off track again "What about your family? Are they all close by?"

"I wish My oldest brother is up in Seattle with his wife and toddler Another brother has a house in San Francisco but he is usually in a skyscraper overseas concluding another est brother is probably locked in his studio back east painting ain Florida"

It amazed her how their conversation was so effortless and yet so totally full of sparks

"What do you do?"

"I’ on a product I invented for most of the past decade"

Sexy and sht as she took another bite of pie and ice creaue, and the combination of sweet and crea froht," she said after she’d sed "This is a cherry pie"

Jack’s dark eyes were intense as they held hers and he agreed, "Ah he’d hardly eaten any pie at all yet