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Poor Will. Honestly, there wasn't enough champagne in the world for all the bombshells Merry kept dropping on him.
He blinked at her. "Your what?"
"We have the same father. I'd never met him before, but recently he showed up out of the blue. He got the internship at the paper and he's been hanging around ever since. He says he wants to get to know me."
He nodded a few times. "And how's that going?" he asked dryly.
"Not well. He seems nice enough, harmless. But maybe I'm just naturally suspicious. Why did he all of a sudden want to track me down? And why stick around even though I'm not really into it?"
He laughed. "If you ever want to go into law enforcement, you're off to a great start."
"Do I sound paranoid?" She scuffed the toe of her boot against the pavement as they reached
