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"Not Hollywood," she said "Mostly athletes I handled one player and they all flocked to me Same stories I’m used to, but more oes down"

"More demands from the clients on you too, I assume?"

"Oh yes In this case, not only was the wife threatening a tell-all book ht, the threat was all over the tabloids I didn’t want to risk this escalating any" Of course, now she faced another proble time

The waiter set their drinks in front of them "Ready to order?"

Julie hadn’t even opened her er well-done and fries?"

"Ditto for ed a few casual words with the waiter before they were alone again, and his attention returned to her "So, back to your reason for being here I’ from the tabloids you’re here for New York’s star pitcher David Rodriguez’s divorce?"

She gave a nod "Yes His ex is froo"

"So is he," Luke said, and then spat off souez stats and Julie arched a brow that had hi fan"

"I’ her "And if you knew the man personally, you wouldn’t be either And if you repeat that, I’ll deny it There were plenty of reasons that s he, fortunately, had enough sense to not want his ten year old daughter to ever find out, or have to deal with, publicly"

Luke tipped back his beer and studied her a long hter, not because David demanded you come"

His ability to read her so easily flustered her He saw too nore his comment, but for reasons she didn’t understand, she found herself saying, "Yes Because I orried about the daughter"

"Because you knohat divorce does to a kid"

She sipped her drink "I have a little experience in that area, yes Parents involved in divorce are often so wrapped up in their own pain they forget their actions have long term effects on the kids" A swell of discomfort formed in her chest She didn’t want to talk about this "You’re lucky Your parents stayed together"

"Forty years," he said "My et my head around it"

"But it’s also been three years since your father passed," she said and their eyestwo years before, and the night he’d told her about his father, his hero, dying of a heart attack They’d been at a Japanese restaurant drinking sake and laughing when things had turned serious It had been the night that she’d known she was in unfamiliar waters with this man, that she felt so reed "Three years ago last uess that uy A retired school teacher who lives down the road froht and day froht and day to htfully

"Maybe," he conceded "I suppose that’s true" He took a drink of his beer "Blake doesn’t like the guy"