Next One Is a Babe

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The smile she had on quickly faded, and she looked at Fiona. “And this is?”

Logan answered before Fiona could, “I’m Lola’s friend, and I know Shawn, too.”

Since Logan said he knew Shawn, the matchmaker thought he was the Hunts’ guest, thus nodded and went in to speak with Lola. “Hi, Lola.” Left with no choice, Lola came out to meet her, and the matchmaker held her hand. “Why did you do that, girl? You should have talked to me first.”

Lola pulled her hand back calmly. “It’s fine, ma’am.”

The matchmaker let out a sigh and started convincing Lola to keep seeing Shawn. She blabbered on and on, but the gist of it was that Shawn was a nice man, and that his pregnant ex-girlfriend was just a product of his impulsive youth. She said he had handled the matter before seeing Lola. “He never did see his ex after the breakup, and he did give her some compensation before they separated. He’s really a nice guy.” The matchmaker made him out to be a kind, loving man, which wasn’t true.

Listening on from the side, Logan held back the urge to spit at her. How could she even say that? What if the ex is her daughter? She’d be out for Shawn’s blood.

Lola kept quiet, then Langdon came out, his expression dark. “No matter what, you should have told us Shawn had a pregnant ex. My daughter’s an innocent girl, and I want her husband to at least be an upright one. How could you hide what Shawn did from us? What were you thinking?”

That made things awkward, and the matchmaker slapped her thigh. “I wasn’t hiding it, Langdon. It’s in the past, so just let bygones be bygones, eh?”

Langdon didn’t take her advice. “Would you marry your daughter to someone like Shawn, then? You know, since what he did is already in the past?” That shut her up.

Langdon was a forward man, and he would say everything Fiona would be too embarrassed to. “Lola’s an innocent girl, and she’s been single all her life. If Shawn could ditch his pregnant girlfriend, who knows what he’d do to Lola? Loving my foot. He paid his ex-girlfriend before they broke up, didn’t he? Well, how much did he give her then? Tell us.”