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He narrowed his eyes and looked at her a little more closely. ‘Do we know each other?’

She shook her head, and the way the movement sent silky blonde hair swirling around her shoulders would have had him imagining his fingers winding through it had he not been ignoring that side of things in favour of finding out what this was all about.

‘No,’ she said. ‘I mean, not really. At least not in the strictest sense of the word.’

‘I’m afraid you’ve lost me.’

‘It is all a bit bemusing, I’ll grant you,’ she said. ‘But the thing is I’ve got myself into a bit of a fix and I need your help.’

‘What kind of a fix?’

She blushed and shifted her weight from one foot to the other. ‘I seem to have—ah—sort of invented a boyfriend.’

‘Sort of?’

She sighed. ‘OK, not sort of. I did invent a boyfriend.’