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Roni was laughing so hard that there were tears in her eyes. “You actually said yes when they asked to set you up?”

“You know how it’s been with me and women,” he argued. “I liked her a lot. I thought she liked me too. It was always so easy when we talked in the building.”

“And you didn’t want to ruin what you had if she wasn’t thinking of you the same way?” Roni asked.

“Yes. But the Fierces have an excellent track record. I took that as a sign. I thought, what could it hurt to have some help on my side.”

Roni rolled her eyes. “They had to be so stunned someone took them up on it,” she said. “No one ever does.”

“Well,” he said. “I did. And because I didn’t have a way to reach Dillion, I had no idea they went to talk to her next and she took them up on it too.”

“Okay,” Roni said. “I find this very sweet. It’s almost as if you two were feeling the same thing and just afraid to take that step.Which is funny to me because, you know, you’re not afraid of much.”

“Women,” he said. “No, that’s wrong. Relationships. That’s what I’ve been afraid of, but I like her a lot. I think it might have hurt worse than anything else if she just wanted to be friends. I was stupid and didn’t see it, but now I do.”

“I’m glad. I’m happy for you,” Roni said. “Are you going to tell Mom and Dad?”

“I will in the next day or so,” he said. “Dillion’s parents know about me.”

“Can I ask what the story is with her?” Roni asked. “She has a child, so is she divorced or just split from her ex?”

“He died,” he said. “When Gianna was five weeks old. All I know is he was an ER doctor and they worked together and he was shot and killed. She has dated no one since.”

“That’s sad,” Roni said. “I did not know. I won’t say a word.”

“I didn’t think you would,” he said.

“I hope you don’t get it in your head that since you’re the first relationship she’s had since Gianna’s father that you’re a rebound or her first try back into the dating pool.”

He hadn’t until just then!

“Thanks, Roni. One more thing for me to worry about now.”

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KEEP YOU INFORMED

“Iappreciate you doing this,” Jax said two weeks later. “I know we don’t get a lot of time together.”

“It’s only dinner with your parents,” she said. “Then you were going to show me where you lived.”

It’d been over three weeks since they’d been dating and things were going wonderfully.

Better than wonderfully, they were superb.

It felt as if nothing could go wrong, but Dillion wasn’t naive enough to think it’d stay this way.

So meeting his parents was the first step, but that also meant once her parents found out, they’d want to meet Jax.

Which was a much harder thing to navigate since her parents had her daughter for her.

How could her boyfriend meet her parents without her daughter finding out?

She wasn’t purposely trying to keep Gianna in the dark, but since it was the first guy she’d dated since Alec, she didn’t know when the right time to introduce them was.

She was feeling guilty about all the time she was away.

Gianna wasn’t stupid. She’d even commented on why her mommy was working late so much.

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