I never want to go through a time like that again. It took me five minutes to fall for her, and then another five weeks to persuade her to marry me—that’s when I could finally get her to listen.’
Jake gave a wry snort of amusement. ‘Is that all? You want to try courting Annie—after eleven years she still won’t marry me, even though she knows how wonderfully easy I am to live with,’ he said mournfully.
‘You jest!’ Anne retorted.
Maggie was wide-eyed. ‘You lived with him?’ she said incredulously.
‘Not precisely,’ Anne mumbled.
‘Yes, you did—precisely. You just wouldn’t marry me.’
She glared at Jake, and he shrugged and smiled.
Ben shook his head. ‘Must be something wrong with your technique, old man.’
‘After all the practice he got in? No chance,’ Anne said drily, and then blushed furiously at the others’ laughter.
She was rescued by the sudden bleeping of her pager.
‘Saved by the bell,’ Jake said with another chuckle, and, with a mumbled excuse, she fled.
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