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“Just give Leon a chance,” Katherine said.
Mortification threatened to swallow Faith whole. She squeezed her eyes shut, and words burst from her mouth without any warning. “You didn’t let me finish. I don’t need you to introduce me to a man because I already have one.”
She opened her eyes to find all three of them watching her dubiously. Damn. Why had she said that? If they asked around, it’d be easy enough to refute.
“Who’s that, dear?” Darren asked.
At that moment, a key rattled in the lock outside. Faith groaned. As if the situation couldn’t get any worse, the object of her unrequited crush had arrived.
“Shane,” she muttered.
Her mother’s eyes widened and darted to the bedroom door. “Oh, Faith. You’re seeing Shane? Why didn’t you tell us?”
Of all the slips of the tongue.
But then an idea occurred to her. Why couldn’t she be with Shane? Her parents would be gone in a week. She’d babysit his children free of charge for a whole freaking year if he got her out of any awkward matchmaking attempts. She had all of twenty seconds to make up her mind, and then the front door opened.
With enthusiasm she didn’t have to fake, she ran into the hall and launched herself at him, seeing the whites of his eyes as they widened, then she dragged him into a thoroughly dramatic kiss.
