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“No one serious, then?”

>She licked her bottom lip and he was distracted for the moment

“There was a girl called Carla, for a while, but it fizzled out”

“What happened?”

Kirsty pushed a plate with crackers and dip towards him

“Come on, Lake,” she teased “You’re the one who didn’t want to do sht up the topic of past romance ‘Fess up or call chicken”

He straightened in his stool Chicken his hairy behind

“Carla wanted to get married and have kids I didn’t”

So shifted in Kirsty’s manner

“You’re one of those guys, then,” she said

“Those guys?”

“Playboy, not interested in settling down”

Lake bristled He sure as hell wasn’t a playboy

“I said I didn’t want to get married and settle doith Carla She was” He cast around for the right terhty,” he said eventually The last straw for hiet that kind of crap froirlfriend too

“But no,” he told Kirsty “I’eneral”