The women shared a glance and stifled giggles as the men fled.
"So how are you holding up with this whole fake marriage thing?" Lori lifted the babe to her breast with a tender smile and encouraging words that were not, Anissa noted, the goo-ing sort of baby talk she had disparaged moments earlier.
Anissa dipped her head. "It would be easy, very easy, to forget that it is a ruse. David is - a very special sort of man. But then you must know that."
Lori's laugh was wry and friendly. "I know he's crazy but in a good way. I know he totally lacks social skills, though a few seem to surface when he's around you. He's brilliant and funny and loyal and not nearly as unlovable as he thinks he is."
"As...he believes he is what?"
"From what I've picked up here and there, David had a rough, very
