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Her heart was pounding in her chest. All she needed to do was say the words. It was just a possible solution to a crisis; it wasn’t as if she’d knocked him out and dragged him all the way to the altar. How hard could it be?
“They would leave you alone if we got married.”
Lane stared at her in complete shock, one hand now braced against the low back of her blue chair, his mouth open, eyes wide, and a blotchy flush creeping up from under his collar. “What?”
Joan felt heat rise in her face, but sat straighter in her chair. She cleared her throat, and kept her voice level. “We could get married. So you could stay.”