He wasn’t sure just why he felt the compelling need to argue with this woman. No matter how hard he tried to get along, they somehow wound up trading bitter quips. He wanted to get along. He had to admit his first impressions of Brandy had been misleading. He could see she was beautiful which in his experience had often meant shallow and a little dense, but Brandy, much to his surprise, had turned out intelligent, strongly opinionated, and independent.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know women like Brandy who was smart and accomplished, but they didn’t normally look the way she did. Each of his brothers had married fine women, and his mother was an intelligent, successful woman, but every one of them was dark beauties. Brandy’s appearance was very misleading. Most of the time busty blonde and b
