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"Here" She thrust a towel at hie could spill onto the floor

"Thank ya kindly, lasses once he sat back down

Jack poured her a glass, then filled his own before returning the bottle to the chilled bucket He lifted his glass and said, "To new friends"

"I can drink to that," Jessie said before clicking her glass to his She sipped the wine and relaxed back into the seat next to hiazeoff "You know, I’ve seen people park here all the ti how they keep those hunks of et it, either I’m surprised there aren’t more problems with them"

"It’s still the safest way to travel," Jack said

"I wouldn’t know I’ve only been on a plane once"

"Really?" That was hard to believe

"I elve; Monica, uy who told her he was visiting from Seattle She’d fallen head over heels for hi the summer"

"I take it your mom’s divorced"

"A few times over," Jessie told him, without even a hint of a frown on her face She was obviously used to her ave her a line about how he’d love to be with her and us kids, but he couldn’t live in Southern California He had a business in Seattle to run anyway He couldn’t ask her to leave here and drag us girls up north…blah, blah, blah"

"Then what?"

"Mos, and took us to Seattle" She shook her head at the o over with Mr Blowhard"

"No Mr Blowhard’s asn’t too fond of opening the door and finding us there"

"Ouch"

"Monica and I never even had a chance to feel the Pacific Northwest rain they always complain about Mom took us to the airport, where we stayed for nearly two days until we could get a flight ho?"

"My ht to buy round-trip tickets or even have enough money to buy our way home A friend of hers wired money, but we still had to wait on standby in the ht It was a ," he told her

Jessie sipped her wine again "What about you? Your parents still married?"

"Ah, no"