Still she looked down. “Um, I…”
“Ah, my apologies. Absolutely not, not that you’re not a very attractive young woman. In the first place I never mix business with pleasure.”
“Well,” Lea laughed, “there was that redhead porn-star lady who was hanging around for a while back when I was, what, eight?”
“Oh, Marie!” sighed Barbara. “Haven’t heard from her in years.”
“I got a Christmas card, I’ll show you when we get home. Anyway. That was after I helped win her case, Lea-leh. Don’t confuse the issue.” Michael smiled at his daughter. “Besides, I wouldn’t dream of moving on a young lady I watched making out with my little girl and all of her friends earlier today on the porch.”
The entire table suddenly seemed to be looking at Gina. All smiling.
Gina froze, suddenly feeling once again very,
