The Man for Maggie. Lee McKenzie

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      Nick sighed. “If I didn’t have a date, Leslie and Allison were going to line me up with one.”

      Brent stopped laughing. “Allison?”

      “Allison Peters,” Nick said. “From high school. Remember?”

      “Uh, yeah.” Brent made a face that pretty much summed up Nick’s feelings about that whole fiasco. “What about her?”

      “She lives next door to Maggie, and she’s my sister’s bridesmaid and she just happened to drop by Maggie’s this morning with the news that Candice Bentley-Ferguson is newly divorced and once again hot to trot. Oh, and did I mention, also one of my sister’s bridesmaids? What was I supposed to do? Let myself get lassoed into taking her?”

      “Quite the dilemma. Which you resolved by asking the new ‘client’ to go with you?”

      Wiseass. It’s not as though Brent had never gotten himself into a jam. “Okay,” he agreed. “I wasn’t thinking clearly. But you know my family. And Allison. What I was I supposed to do? Let them set me up with Candice?”