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"You actually know some ofback

"Yes, Tyler Henderson told " He searched roaned Tobyto his dad

"He toldso?"

"Yes I let hih to work out your problems yourself " Dad smiled

"I can’t believe his dad called you But be honest, did you even know Toby and I were dating?"

"Hey, give credit where credit is due I know more about your life than you think"

"You’ve seen me twice in the last year You barely ever coet to me too much, but he’d always made it clear that Westchester, even with me there, was the last place he wanted to be

"True, but we video chat once a week, I thought you liked that"

Jess laughed "You Skype Mr Davis?"

"First, Allie accusesabout her life, now you think I’ies You ladies are hard to dine with But, we’re together now, Allie, isn’t that whataround this summer?" I took a sip of water, already sure of his response

"I will be in and out I’ll try to be around as much as possible, but you know travel is part of my business One of the reasons I invited you down here was to introduce you to that business You need to start getting your feet wet; this is going to be your coue, but I couldn’t let them out I wanted to tell hiht for another day

He took advantage ofto tellhappened, it just didn’t work out"

"That’s it? That’s all you’re going to give etting in the middle of this" Jess held up her hands in defense

"Can we please change the subject?"

"We can, once you tell lass as though he had all the time in the world I knew otherwise, so I didn’t leave hi real between us"

"You’re not going to elaborate more? He just wasn’t the ‘one’?" He made air quotes

"What else is there to say? There were no sparks, all he ever wanted to talk about was our future careers and how great it was that our faot married"

"Is that all he talked about? Last tis on their minds"

"Dad!" I snapped There are certain conversations a girl never wants to have with her father

Evidently he got the hint "All right, I’ll drop it, but ould have believed a daughter of your row up to be a romantic"