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So, yes, there were tiht of hi man she’d ever encountered in her entire life, and she was in a dating dry spell of epic proportions, which es of Dante was about all she had going on in her love life

And she saw the s worse

As a result of the exposure, when pressed for the name of her fiancé by Rebecca Addler, the only man she’d been able to picture had been Dante And so his name had sort of spilled out

Another gaffe in a long line of thee

So there, newspaper reporter

One of his dark eyebrows shot upward “I’m flattered”

She put her hand on her forehead “There is no way forto explain this,” she said “It’s just aard But…but…I don’t really knohat to do now It wasn’t supposed to be in the paper, and now it is, and if it turns out we aren’t engaged they’ll know that I lied and then…”

“And then you’ll be a single mother who is also a liar Two strikes, I would think” His tone was so disengaged, so unfeeling

She sed “Well, exactly”

He was right Two strikes If not a plain old strikeout It wasn’t an acceptable risk Not where Ana was concerned Ana, the brightest spot in her life Her helpless little girl, the baby she lovedand no one else she would even consider stooping to this level of subterfuge for, nothing else that could possibly co to think she had to do: propose to her boss

The s when he walked into a roo of a dinner date with hihable

But this was bigger than that Bigger than a little crush or her insecurity Her fear of outright rejection