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Walker paced around the kitchen while waiting for Ashleigh to get ready. He tried to calm his nerves by checking that every clock in the house was set to the precise time, but they all were anyway. He tried walking around the house, checking to see if there was any maintenance that needed to be done. There wasn’t.
She had told him to give her an hour, and an unnecessary check of his watch told him it had only been twenty-two minutes.
It was a particular brand of excruciating first date nerves that coursed through his system. He’d been banished from his own bedroom, where his fiancée was getting ready for their first date. Because, oh yeah, it was her bedroom, too.
There were few things in life that shocked him. He tended to be observant enough and a good enough judge of character th
