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“Because I take so long,” he agreed, then tried to lighten the h fashion She’d much rather I take her to the mall”

Natalie found herself wanting to defend Matthew, to help Carrie see how difficult it must have been for him to have had a child thrust into his busy life

“You could use your hospital trips as research to design us new scrubs with the ested, trying to ease the underlying tension between Matthew and the child

The girl’s nose wrinkled “Scrubs are boring clothes”

Natalie glanced down at the blue ones she wore “Co”

Yet they were her preferred wardrobe and what she had on more often than not

“Which is why doctors and nurses around the world need you to co stylish for us Help us be more fashionable”

Carrie seeued by that idea, and she and Natalie carried on a quite lengthy conversation about hospital fashion

The conversation jumped from one topic to another and before Natalie knew it she was at Matthew’s house How had that happened? She’d had no intention of going to his house Or spending one second hter than was absolutely necessary

Only Carrie had wanted to show off her new bedroo she was excited about and super-proud of Natalie hadn’t had the heart to say no, and when she’d looked at Matthew for guidance he’d just shrugged as if to say he didn’t care one way or the other

She supposed he didn’t

Since his Me otten all about Miami It hat she needed to do What she wanted to do

For most of dinner, he’d listened to her and Carrie’s conversation, throwing in a co their interactions

His house was in an upscale neighborhood on Mud Island not too far from where she lived, and just ten minutes froated community with a circle drive and a fenced back yard It was a house for a family, not two people

“Excuse the lack of furniture I sold most of what I had in Boston, rather thanfurniture as tiether piece by piece”