An Unlikely Match (The Match Series - Book #1) (20 page)

“
It worked just fine,” Amelia noted as he opened the door to the cab.

“It worked just fine
,” said Morgan. “And I’ll be grateful to them for the rest of our lives.”

o
o o o

JW watched the cab pull away from the corner. “Well, I’ll be damned.”

“It’s hard to beat sound science,” Sam put in as the four of them clustered by the small window.

“He’s
definitely going to propose,” said Daisy.

JW thought it very likely that he was.
He also thought Morgan seemed like a good man, a very good man. He’d showed up here, prepared to confront them face-to-face with confidence and tough questions. He’d listened to their explanation, then he’d come to his own conclusion.

JW felt his chest swell with pride.
And then Morgan had called him “grandfather.” Who would have thought such a small word could mean so much?

“They make a wonderful couple,” said Hannah
, her voice cracking ever so slightly.

Th
e kitchen door suddenly skidded open, and Lizbet marched into the room.

“It worked,” Daisy sang out
to her with unbridled joy.

“
I’m going to kill him,” Lizbet declared.

“What the hell?” JW demanded.

“What did he do?” asked Daisy in a confused tone.

“He
left
her,” Lizbet stated with obvious anger.

Hannah gaped
through the window at the departing cab. “No, he didn’t. They’re together. They’re getting engaged.”

“Who are you talking about?” asked Sam.

“My granddaughter Jillian,” said Lizbet. “Last night, her jerk-face of a fiancé left her standing at the altar.”

“
Is she all right?” asked Hannah, moving from the window.

Daisy jumped in
, the two women gravitating toward Lizbet. “You weren’t at the wedding?”

JW realized that was an excellent
question.

“She’s one of Sandy’s daughters,” Lizbet answered. “You know what things are like with Sandy.”

JW sympathized. Like him, Lizbet’s priority had been her career and not her family. She’d worked in a demanding job and grown estranged from her husband. Away from home, she had sought comfort in the arms of another man. The affair had ended her marriage and earned the anger of her oldest daughter, Sandy.

“
Do you know if she’s all right?” Hannah asked again.

“I don’t have a lot of det
ails. But Edmund’s family is very prominent in DC.”

“That’s not good,”
Sam put in.

“Can we help her?” asked Daisy. “Does she need anything?”

“If she does, she’s not about to ask me,” said Lizbet, bitterness in her tone. “What little I know, I got from Jade. She’s convinced Edmund met someone else. And he didn’t even have the guts to tell her in person.”

“What are you going to do?” asked Hannah.

“What can I do?”

Sam
raised his arm and pointed firmly toward the door. “We enter data on the grandsons and great-nephews. We need to find her a new man, a better man.”

All three wome
n turned to stare at him.

JW found himself grinning
at the idea. “Operation Matchmaker. No reason to think it won’t work again.”

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AN IMPRACTICAL MATCH
Book #2

AN EXTRAORDINARY MATCH
Book #3

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