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"My hair probably I’ve never liked the shade"

"I like it very ood at the dodge"

He studied her for a heartbeat "The dodge?"

"It’s when you set up a situation to fleece soes, but you usually have a partner You have to learn to read the situation very quickly and to knohat your partner is going to do You never want to play a game where Luke and Jack are partners They always knohat the other is thinking Anyway, dancing is like a dodge You follow your partner or let your partner follow you"

"I can see over your shoulders that there are a lot of people on this floor"

She shtly "Yes, there are And we’ve not bue"

She appeared startled when he came to an abrupt halt He felt soive them a wide berth He dropped down to one knee and Frannie’s beautiful green eyes widened

He are of people no longer circling around him The music came to a stop and he could sense the anticipation in the roo, will you honorasp he heard, but hers was the only one that mattered Tears filled her eyes She nodded quickly, smiled radiantly "Yes! Oh, yes!"

He rose to his feet, took her in his arms, and kissed her deeply

Without her in his life, the past few months had been sheer tor he couldn’t even identify And tonight for the first ti for, what he’d always been searching for: the woman nestled within the circle of his ar received a request for awith Claybourne and arrived at Claybourne’s residence at the appointed hour Within the library, he’d not expected to face Claybourne, Dodger, and Beckwith--his family’s solicitor It seeentle a bit frazzled

"I assuood husband or else," Sterling said, laconically "I’ht we needed to come to terms on the settleentle to provide a dowry? I assure you One is not necessary I have no proble"

"There You see?" Frannie said "I told you this was unnecessary"