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There was Customer Service, a chirpy brunette with a per there, someone dressed in jeans and a sweater, devilishly normal in the twenty-first-century crowd He saw her, and he straightened, his eyes hopeful Apparently, Mrs Wattlesbrook’s barrister hadn’t been in his office to assure her that being a reement

"Jane"

"Martin You whistled?" She laid the rancor on thick No need to tap dance around

"Jane, I’ht The point is, I was going to tell you, and then we could still see if you and I--"

"You’re an actor," Jane said as though "actor" and "bastard" were synonyh for cue cards

"But you’re desperately in love with me," she prompted him "I’m unbelievably beautiful, and I make you feel like yourself Oh, and I remind you of your sister"

The chirpy brunette behind the counter furiously refused to look up from her monitor

"Jane, please"

‘And the suddenly passionate feelings that sent you running afterto do with Mrs Wattlesbrook’s fear that I’ll write a negative review of Pembrook Park"

"No! Listen, I knoas a cad, and I lied and was o United--but roroundDid Mrs Wattlesbrook write that line?"

Martin exhaled in exasperation

Thinking of Molly’s dead end on the background check, she asked, "Your name’s not really Martin Jasper, is it?"

"Well," he looked at the brunette as though for help "Well, it is Martin"

The brunette sure ran toward her The side-burns and stiff-collared jacket looked ridiculous out of the context of Peh he’d stuck on a baseball cap and trench coat, trying to blend His face was flushed frohed with relief

Jane dropped her jaw Literally She had never, even in her ined that Mr Nobley would co slick with her boot heel, and tottered alht her and set her back up on her feet

Is this oht Jane We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued byenjoyed it Briefly

"You haven’t left yet," Nobley said He seeo of her, but he did and took a few steps back "I’ve been panicked that" He saw Martin "What are you doing here?"