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“You once said that if I ever needed a favor, I simply had to ask,”

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Luke told Callie.

“Well, you have some nerve, Luke Parker. Calling me in on a long-ago favor!”

“My father is set on me taking over the family business.”

Callie didn’t need to hear the steel in his tone to know his take on that. Years ago, something bad must have happened between father and son, something that left Luke vehemently determined to do nothing to increase his father’s fortune.

“Just how do you expect me to help you?” She wanted to sound aloof and uncaring, but she was curious.

“Way I see it,” Luke said carefully, “I need to make myself so undesirable, he’d never let me run the business. And that, darlin’, is where you come in.”

“Forget it, Luke. I’ve got better things to do than playing your girlfriend again so you can annoy your father.”

“I’m not asking you to play my girlfriend,” he said. “No, Callie, I’m asking you to be my wife.”

Solution: Marriage

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