Amanda sat down on the bench seat, leaned back against the bow and waited. Dane sat down beside her. When he began talking, his words were slow and measured. “I liked Denise from the moment I met her. Along with the all-important fact that she had your laugh, she was also beautiful and smart and sexy. And the only woman I’d ever met who was every bit as driven to succeed as I was.” “She sounds like an absolute paragon.” Dane would have had to be deaf not to hear the female jealousy in Amanda’s dry tone. He chuckled as he put his arm around her shoulder, encouraged when she did not pull away. “Unfortunately, except for our work, we didn’t have a single solitary thing in common. Six months later, when neither of us had much to laugh about, we decided to call it quits before our disastrous marriage ruined a very good working relationship.” “I can’t imagine working with an ex-husband.”
