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She bit her lip “I’m sorry if I was rude before I’ave her an easy smile “Everyone’s in the market for a friend, Alexis”

She opened her ht She could use a friend She’d spent her entire life in Boston and knew aluy seeh—ould be the har since she’d had soan seemed to know the moment she capitulated, because he turnedstudent, Alexis, is a recent graduate One who hasn’t quite absorbed that there will be no hters, and no ave her a wry look “How young do I look, darling? MBA from Columbia Just finished up end of last year”

She felt a little stab of relief that he wasn’t twenty-two

He leaned toward her slightly “Twenty-five nextAs a friend”

She tried to hide her s way from home”

“Noticed that, did ya?” He winked “I cao back to London and ed “Seems I have stuff to do here first”

“Such as?” She took a sip of her wine, dismayed to see that it was half-eiven my vast amount of brawn, but I’et ”

Alexis was is, even those with an entrepreneurial bent, opted to get a few years of work for so out on their own

He nodded “I’ to lease so else to get my father off an’s shoulder lifted, and for the first time he seemed a little sad “Both parents have had it in their head that I’d come home Run the family business in London”

“Which is?”

He spun his beer glass idly “Financial consulting firm My father’s the CEO, Muan supplied

“I was going to say i each other, I mean”

“They’re in love It’s atrocious,” he said with a wink “What about your folks?”