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was to fall for the charm of a philanderer? Ash waited for the information
she’d requested, smiling as sweetly as possible at her hostess.
    “Head down the hallway there, and it’s the
third door on the left.”
    Ash gave Jack a half smile and bobbed her
head. “Nice to meet you.”
    She turned on her heel for the second time
in ten minutes and headed off in the direction Rosalie had sent her.
    The house was incredible. The ceilings were high and the rooms were spacious, yet
had that cozy home feel that only special people
managed. She stopped outside the bathroom and stared at the framed picture on
the wall. It was of Tyler and Brandon, about fifteen years earlier. They were
lanky and their noses were too big, yet their smiles were exactly the same. Cheeky and oh-so-charming. Her cousin was a lucky woman,
indeed. Assuming, of course, that they didn’t turn into the arrogant pigs most
men could be. Though judging by their mother, they’d be skinned alive if they
did.
    “I love that photo.”
    Rosalie had snuck up behind
her and poked her nose over Ash’s shoulder.
    Ash turned and smiled at the
proud mother. “My cousin seems very happy, Rosalie. I’m so glad she’s found
someone…ah…” Laura was sorta married to both of them,
right? Ash had read the invitation wrong and turned up two hours early. She’d
been shocked at first to see two grooms surrounding her cousin, but Laura’s
happiness had been so evident, it was impossible to judge her harshly. “I mean,
men who will look after her, love her.”
    Rosalie swiveled so she was blocking Ash’s escape into the bathroom, her abundant figure
beautiful in its feminine shapes.
    “She is, but so are they.”
    Ash nodded. “I don’t know
your sons at all, but I do know Laura. That woman is a gem.”
    Rosalie crossed her arms over
her impressive bust and looked at her with intense eyes. Ash cocked her head at
the older woman.
    “Is there something you want
to tell me, Rosalie?”
    Rosalie’s beautiful eyes were
troubled as she worried her lower lip with her teeth.
    “My sons are a perfect pair. Which means that they are perfect compliments to each other, in
both looks and personality. Pretty much think of it as your perfect man,
divided into two.”
    Ashleigh laughed, the bubbles
spreading up through her belly and out. She had to cover her mouth with her
hand, she was so loud.
    “Well, in my experience that
would be the only way to get a halfway decent man.”
    Rosalie frowned at her, and
Ash stopped laughing. That was probably too much information for a woman she
barely knew.
    “Jack and Scott are a perfect pair also, so please don’t dismiss Jack
because you think he isn’t educated enough. He has a college degree, but
chooses to spend his life educating young men about the strength of their
bodies. Scott is a scientist with the government, he chose a different path.”
    Heat seared a path up Ash’s
neck and blossomed across her face. The tone Rosalie had just taken with her
could only be called chastising, and she was feeling it right down to her
sickened belly.
    Guilty as charged.
    “I don’t like football, or
footballers, Rosalie. I have just endured a very nasty divorce, so please
excuse my rude behavior . I’m not interested in
anyone, especially two men who…”
    She trailed off, her
cross-referencing brain pulling together fibers she
wasn’t sure she should.
    Two men! Oh my God!
    She took a breath and stared
directly into Rosalie’s blue eyes, seeing the truth there before she even asked
the dreaded question.
    “Rosalie, do all perfect pairs marry one
woman?”
    She placed her hands on her hips and barely
stopped herself from tapping her foot when Rosalie looked down for a moment.
    Then the woman looked back up, her mouth
tight as she nodded. “Yes. They are designed to find one perfect woman for
them.”
    Oh
God, no.
    “Why are Jack and Scott pursuing me? And
does it have something to do with that weird electricity