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else will just make me mad.”
    “I think I’ll get the chicken,” Makenna
said. She glanced around the restaurant. “So far, so good. No sign of the
Lewises.”
    “Good. I’m looking forward to having you
to myself and learning more about you.”
    After ordering, Makenna sipped her wine
and murmured her appreciation of the smooth vintage. “So, you were going to
tell me all about yourself,” she said, beating him to the punch. “Tell me more
about Hardin Kaczmarek.”
    “I think I’ve already hit all the
highlights. Attended Texas State University, work in the family construction
business, have a house and a few acres outside of Gruene, like to hunt and fish
and ride bikes of all kinds, from ten speeds to motorcycles. Not much else to
tell.”
    “There might be one or two little
details you missed. Family? Girlfriend?” She hesitated before asking a belated
question. “Wife?”
    He looked appropriately wounded. “Wife?
Really? You think I would have kissed you if I had a wife at home?”
    Makenna closed her eyes at her own
stupidity. “No, no, of course not. Ignore me. Sometimes I can be…” She broke
off, searching for the right word.
    “Distrustful? Suspicious?” he supplied.
    “Slow. I should have asked that
yesterday, huh?” she said with a rueful smile. “So no wife. Is that current or
past-tense?”
    “Never had the pleasure of being
married. And before you ask, no girlfriend. Currently, that is.” His smile was
disarming.
    “But you do have a family, I suppose.
Parents, siblings?”
    “All of the above. My parents live in
New Braunfels, in the same house they bought when they married forty-six years
ago. They’ve added on so many times it’s hard to pinpoint the original frame,
but I guess that’s part of being in construction. You construct. At least
that’s my dad’s theory, anyway. My oldest brother, Johnathan, lives on the
family property with his wife and four kids. My brother Adam will graduate from
Texas A&M next year. He’s studying architecture and plans to join the rest
of us in the family business.”
    “Sisters?”
    “We’re a respectable German family. Of
course there are more than just three boys. There’re three girls, as well.
Becca and her husband run the plumbing side of the construction business. They
also have four kids. Maegan and Anna help my mother with interior design.”
    “Are they married?” She was mentally
calculating how big his family must be, given all the in-laws, outlaws, and
grandchildren.
    “Maegan’s been married for a couple of
years and is expecting her first child in the fall. Anna’s been dating her high
school sweetheart for years now, but still no ring. She and Adam are twins, by
the way.”
    “Your family sounds amazing. You must
all get along really well.”
    “You might have a different opinion if
you were there during the holidays or during a football game, but yeah, we’re
pretty tight.” There was obvious affection in his voice.
    “So where do you fall in the Kaczmarek
family line-up?”
    “I slipped in between Becca and Maegan.”
    “And even though there’s no current
girlfriend, I’m sure there’s been a long line of girlfriends past?” Makenna
asked as she sipped her wine.
    He had the grace to look uncomfortable.
“I wouldn’t say an unusually long list.”
    “Any names that stand out from the
rest?”
    He laughed at her line of questioning.
“Maybe a couple, but none even came close to having their last name changed.
Not by me, anyway.”
    Makenna felt the warm glow of
satisfaction at knowing he had never been engaged, much less married. Not that
their relationship -  should they even get to that stage - stood a chance,
she reminded herself; she was lying to him, impersonating someone else. He
didn’t even know her real name! He thought he had kissed Kenzie Reese, not
Makenna Reagan.
    “So,” Hardin said with a tone of
decisiveness. “You now know all about me, which means it’s my turn to ask