The Returning Ex

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.”

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

held back the urge to spit at her. How could she even say that? What if the ex is her

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

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,

you marry your daughter to someone like Shawn, then?

she’s been single all her life. If Shawn could ditch his pregnant girlfriend, who knows what he’d do to Lola?

lot of money by matching up a couple, but