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Оглавление“Wayne, why did you vote the way you did?”
“Maybe I don’t like to be rushed into things.”
Maggie straightened and shoved stray hair out of her eyes. “That’s something, anyway. Something I can work with.”
The muscles of his jaw rippled along one side. “I’m not sure I like the idea of being the object of one of your campaigns, but I guess it comes with the territory.”
“It won’t hurt,” she said with a smile. “Not much, anyway.”
A silence fell between them, the pale wisps of their breath mingling and dissipating in the moonlit air. He pushed away from the truck. “What exactly is it you want from me, Maggie?”
“I want your promise to consider my proposal with an open mind.”
“I’ll consider that proposal of yours, if you’ll consider the possibility that my mind was open to it in the first place.”
She squelched the urge to argue his last point. “All right,” she said, extending her right hand. “I will.”
He slid his hand against her palm. It was wide and warm and rough with calluses.
His long fingers slowly closed around hers. “That’s something, anyway,” he said. “Guess I’ll find out whether or not it’s something I can work with.”
