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“What do you mean you can’t watch Ginny for me?” Stone stared at his sister in utter disbelief. He’d been counting on Virginia. There was no back-up plan for him to turn to. “I’m supposed to be start working on that woman’s house today. The one who cooks things,” he added by way of a description in case Virginia didn’t remember who he was referring to.

Virginia was caught between feeling guilty over lying to Stone and putting him through this—even if it was for his own good—and trying desperately to suppress the laugh bubbling up in her throat in response to what her brother assumed for an enlightening description. Leave it to Stone to reduce a notable, thriving career and identify it in such a way that it could fit just about every single woman both he and she knew—excluding herself since she had yet to learn how to successfully boil water without burning something.

But, for the sake of playacting—and the fact that Maizie thought that it would be in everyone’s best interest to have Stone acquaint Danni with Ginny at the very outset of this relationship, Virginia pretended to be a little confused.

“Are you talking about the woman with the cable network cooking show?” she asked innocently.