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Lilly wanted to believe Deegan, wanted to very badly. Experience had convinced her otherwise. “I’m too tall.”

“Just right.”

“I’m not beautiful. In fact, only kind people would even term me a pretty woman.”

“Then they are not merely kind, they are blind,” Deegan assured her. “You have a beauty that transcends time.”

Lilly linked her arms around his neck. “I see you are one of the blind, then.”

He chuckled. “Perhaps I am. Blinded by your loveliness.”

“What is it they claim the Irish practice? Blarney?”

“It isn’t a religion, it’s a gift,” he corrected, “and I haven’t uttered a bit of blarney to you, my lass. If things were different, I would court you in earnest.”

If things were different. But they weren’t. She was still the strapping daughter of a city clerk and he was still a man in love with someone else….