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The woman was smart.
He’d married a goddamn encyclopedia.
It had been a shock enough to Trick when he was told that she’d said yes, how the hell had that happened? He’d managed to bag the first woman he’d proposed to without actually ever meeting her.
Then she’d turned around the end of that screen and he’d been shocked. Her full skirt, long-sleeves and thick veil made it pretty obvious that she was hands-off. Before the actual wedding day, he hadn’t given a lot of thought to who they’d lined up for him. The idea had been put to him and he’d thought, ‘What the heck?’ If it helped the station that had given him a home, then why shouldn’t he toss a couple of months at this?
Trick had been surprised by how good a sport she was when the up and down the aisle debacle happened. The firs
