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Aidan stretched his legs out in front of hi up on the spreadsheet ‘It’s-not-you-it’s-?’

‘Exactly’ Her smile lit up her face

‘Used that line a lot, have you?’

She grimaced ‘More like that line has been used on me’

Aidan’s eyebrows shot up ‘You’re kidding?’

She shook her head ‘Unfortunately not Lucilla has a theory that I date all the wrong kinds of men because I want them to reinforce my view of the world’

‘Which is?’ Aidan’s eyes slid over her He thought about all the reasons he shouldn’t go to bed with her and couldn’t co, undoubtedly frivolous and impulsive, but so what? He didn’t want to marry her He didn’t want to marry any woman

‘She thinks that I’ve been let down by love too many times and now I only choose men who can’t commit’

His eyes met hers That just about summed him up

‘Interesting,’ he murmured, surprised to find that he actually was ‘And what do you think?’

She shrugged as if the whole topic meant very little to her ‘I think that if there is a social climber or a social misfit within a ten kilometre radius, then I could find him if I was blindfolded and tied to a post’

Aidan laughed with genuine ae my reputation I’ve never been called a social misfit before’

Cara giggled ‘Well, obviously fake relationships don’t count’

‘Lucky for me’

‘That’s what I was thinking So what about you?’

He looked back at her uneasily ‘What about me?’

‘You don’t have a girlfriend right now, do you?’

Aidan raised an eyebrow ‘I would hardly have brought you withenough to becoirlfriends’

She tilted her head and her hair caught the light froe inti

‘Why not?’

This tied as if it didn’t matter Only for him it really didn’t ‘They say I work too much’

‘And do you?’