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Now to make sure you're really interested, here's an excerpt from The Crazy Girl's Handbook
(which can be found in novella version in Valentine, Pets & Kisses box set, and in the full novel version of The Crazy Girl's Handbook)
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Something
waved in front of my face, startling me into pulling my hand back, which led to
me yanking my hair. Evan’s voice called up to me as he waved a ball cap at me.
“Here, Auntie Greenly, Mr. Sammy’s Dad said you could borrow his hat so no one
sees your hair all gross.”
And
there was my old friend mortification again. Yep. Is this day over yet? Snatching the hat out of his hand, I twisted
my long blonde hair into a hasty knot and shoved the hat on my head to wedge it
in place. “Thanks,” I grumbled.
Evan
dashed off to the door of the ice cream shop with the other two boys as I tried
to rein in my irritation. I almost jumped when Roman slipped up next to me.
“That’s not what I said,” he claimed. “What I told Evan was that you might be
worried about someone noticing the gum and probably wanted a hat to cover it.”
He chuckled as he pinched a loose strand of hair between his fingers and tucked
it under the cap. “I did not call your hair gross.”
He
walked away to catch up with the boys then. Maybe one of the kids will dump ice
cream on me and wrap this afternoon up in style. Giving in to the inevitability
of more embarrassment, I dragged myself into the little shop. All three boys
were ogling the available flavors, though Evan could barely see over the
counter and was trying to get Colby to lift him up. Not sure the seven-year-old
would be able to help him out much, I started toward him. Roman beat me to it.
Scooping
Evan up from the ground, he hefted the little guy into his arms and held him over
the heads of the other two boys so he could see. An animated discussion about
the various flavors broke out and suddenly I wasn’t mad at Lydia anymore. I was
mad at myself.
Roman
was a good guy. The boys clearly adored him. Sammy seemed like a great kid, and
while I had no idea whether or not the boy’s mom was in the picture, I had no
doubt Roman was a big part of why Sammy had turned out so well. Yes, the guys
Lydia usually tried to set me up with were questionable, but she did it because
she wanted me to be happy. Would it really have been that horrible to let her
fix me up one more time? I shivered, remembering what had spurred me to
overreact in the first place, but stuffed it away quickly. That hadn’t had
anything to do with Roman or Lydia. Why couldn’t I have just done what she’d
asked for the hundredth time and met Roman at a nice restaurant instead of at a
baseball game with gum in my hair?
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