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“You’re really nice,” she said iuessed that”

He laughed “People describe me in a lot of ways, but nice isn’t one of them”

“Ginger thinks you’re nice”

“She’s my sister She has to”

“She doesn’t and maybe it’s because she knows you best”

He started toward her, then stopped a foot away For several heartbeats his dark green eyes gazed at her, then he turned and pointed at the shelves

“You get to pick tonight Anything you want”

A ether? In the snowy quiet? She hoped for the six-hour A&E version of Pride and Prejudice, but settled on a movie from the 1950s called Summertime

“Excellent choice,” Jonny said, taking the DVD case fro the tioes on to have an affair with a erous stuff”

“How can you know the plot?”

“I’ve seen it I’ve seen every movie here” He motioned to the hundreds of DVDs “For me, it’s research Why did one story line work and not another? What technique are the actors using? What can I learn from them?”

“Do you ever just relax and watch the show?”

“Tonight I will”

She sat dohile he loaded the DVD When he joined her, she hoped he would settle close, but he kept a respectable distance between them Darn and double darn