Next One Is a Babe

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The matchmaker couldn’t take up that challenge. Everyone in the village was honest to goodness, and what Shawn did would enrage them.

Even though the dating world was getting more and more open, the marriage world wasn’t. Anyone would give a jerk like Shawn a wide berth lest they turned out the same way as his ex.

And of course, the matchmaker would be a public enemy too. If Langdon told everyone about this, it’d affect her business, so she stopped him. “Fine, Langdon. You win. I shouldn’t have gotten myself into this mess. I’ll tell the Longs that Lola won’t be dating Shawn, then. But I guess that means you guys will be enemies now.”

Langdon almost leaped at her with anger. “So what? You think I’d be scared of those scrubs?”

Logan almost laughed. He thought he’d have to interject at some point, but then he was proved wrong. Langdon was proving himself to be a likeable man, and he knew where Lola got her sense of justice from; Langdon’s words and actions exuded the traditional sense of justice.

The matchmaker left in frustration after losing the fight, mumbling under her breath. Langdon cursed after her, but Lola stopped him. “Now, now. Forget about this and don’t let it ruin your night. It’s dinner time.”

Under his daughter’s consoling, Langdon calmed down and looked at Logan. “Sorry you had to see that, Logan. Come on, let’s eat.”

Logan smiled. “I think you did the right thing. You can’t let these jerks get away with it.” If it was the old him, he would have punched the matchmaker the moment she tried to defend Shawn.

They went back to the dining room for dinner, and Langdon mentioned Shawn halfway through. “I don’t like him, but I don’t hate him either. I thought he looked like an honest kid, so Lola would have a good life with him. But now I see it’s just his façade.”

Logan smiled at him and stole a glance at Lola. “Yeah, you can’t judge a book by its cover. Just because someone looks kind doesn’t mean they are, and the opposite is the same.”

Sure enough, Lola caught the message he was trying to say, and when nobody was looking, she glared at him. Logan only laughed and shook his head, then he had a few shots with Langdon.

Seeing this, Lola protested, “Hey, you still need to drive us back.”