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lawyer for one of the
law firms. He’s not seeing anyone, but he’s a bit of player. He pretends he’s
not for my family’s sake. Mom and Dad are great believers in the sanctity of
marriage.”
    “So when I’m around him I’m to pretend I don’t play
the field or anything.”
    She saw he was teasing and thumped him in the arm. “My
dad will ask you about your views on marriage. Please, to make this work I need
you to make out as if our marriage is on the cards but we’re waiting for mutual
reasons or something.”
    “I’ll not let you down. We’re studying your family to
pretend to be a couple. Don’t you think we’re a couple anyway?” he asked.
    “We’ve never been out on a date.”  
    “Not on an official date. To some people we’ve been
out on plenty of dates.”
    “Attending your openings does not class as a date. Let’s
save that argument for another time. This is James, and he works in
advertising. I’m not completely up to speed on what he does. Oh, here is my
sister Tracy.”
    For the next few hours she spent a great deal of time
going through her family history and brought him up to speed. He listened and
for the most part remained quiet.
    “Are you sure you’re okay with all this?” she asked,
yawning.
    “I’m fine with it, Sara. I think you need to get some
sleep. It has gone two in the morning, and I need to rest. We can pick this up
tomorrow.”
    He walked her down to her apartment door this time.
She opened the door and turned to him. Sara wrapped her arms around him. “Thank
you so much.”
     

Chapter Four
     
    The following morning Andy woke up with a pounding
head and dry mouth. The memories from the night before came to him in one quick
jerk. He sat up in bed, rubbed his eyes, and saw the photograph albums he’d
brought to his bed. Grabbing the first one closest to him, he opened the page.
Sara gazed back at him, her hair pulled back in a ponytail. He saw the laughter
in her eyes as she stared at the camera. She had a close family. He witnessed
it in the pictures he’d seen.
    Her brothers were all large and protective. They
surrounded her like a blanket. He recalled the number of times she’d complained
about one of them sending her cash and the other demanding weekly reports.
    Champion padded into the bedroom.
    “What am I going to do with this family?” he asked the
dog. He didn’t get an answer from talking with Champion. Andy ran a hand over
his face and once again thought about the kind of mess he’d gotten himself
into.
    His phone rang. He picked it up without looking at the
caller ID.
    “Hello,” he said.
    “Hey, you’re awake.” Travis was on the line.
    Turning to his alarm clock he saw it was past ten. He
wondered why Sara hadn’t given him a wake-up call. “I am now.” Andy rolled over
and stood up. He stretched his arms over his head before heading out to his
kitchen.
    “Are we on for next weekend? The football and picking
up some women later on?” Travis asked. “All of the guys are in.”
    “I can’t,” he said. Andy groaned thinking about the
stick he was going to get for agreeing to be Sara’s fake boyfriend.
    “Can’t come? You never miss a match or the chance to
pick up a woman for the night.”
    That wasn’t true. He hadn’t slept with a girl in over
a year. Not since his attraction for Sara refused to go away. “I’ve sort of
promised Sara I’d do something for her that weekend.”
    “What could be more important? Explain to me how
you’re going to pass up a chance with your friends for this girl?” Travis
sounded shocked. Every one of his friends refused to settle down. They were not
the marrying kind of men. Each woman who looked to be getting closer to them,
they kicked to the curb. They didn’t do love or commitment. In their own way
they were protecting the women from a lifetime of misery.
    “It’s private,” Andy said. He could just see them
laughing the moment he told them what he agreed to do for her.
    “No,