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The limousine picked me up at the strip mall’s coffee shop promptly at six Alejandro wasn’t in back, so I chatted with Udo "You’re ht, I aot fauy atched the parade of women I was sure he’d seen it all "Is it true he’s with a different woht?"

Udo frowned "It is true zat ht But zere are far fewer than you zink"

"Oh cohed "Zat is how zee uess the media could make up stories about me, too That’s why I ran from the event yesterday" I pulled his hat from my purse and handed it back to him "Thanks for the loan"

"If you do not vant zee media to make up stories about you, zen you should not be vith hi to find you eventually, you know Zey even follow me My vife calls me each time she sees me in a picture vith him"

"Your wife calls you? Where is she?"

Udo sluht now It is a long story"

I understood that he didn’t want to discuss his marital proble about soot it on"

Udo flipped a hand out to the side "Yes, yes She tells anyone who asks But it is over between zearded , Ms Gleason, I zink he is quite taken vith you I have not been sent to fetch many vomen, and never one who had run away from him zee day before"

Oh God! I did not need to hear this Not only was I swindling this beautiful and talentedhis heart, too Not that I understood how such a thing was possible Still, I hatedhiuess I should be honored" But honor was the furthest e I deserved I rode quietly the rest of the way to Alejandro’s mansion