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“My hair” She touched the tight bun at the back of her head

“Yeah, I’ve never seen it down”

Feeling entirely too self-conscious, Julia unpinned her hair The honey-coloured waves fell to her shoulders Her hair was hard to style It was never neat enough for Julia, and there was too

much of it She’d inherited her mother’s thick locks

“Beautiful” Joe reached out and played with one of the waves “You should wear it down all the time”

“It gets in the way”

“Of what?”

She frowned at him “Life”

With a grin, Joe played another card “Come on, time for you to win a boon If you can”

Julia kept her eyes glued to the growing pile of cards they thren Her hand shot out when two aces appeared

“Snap!” She grinned at Joe

“Julia Collins, you’ve got a maniacal competitive streak I didn’t know that about you”

“You should see athered the cards

“I’d like that Nohat are you going to claim as your boon?”

Two thoughts slammed into her mind at the same time One of them made her blush furiously