HE TOOK HIS FIANCÉE TO HIS POOR HOMETOWN TO TEST HER—BUT THE PAPER SHE HANDED HIM LEFT HIM TOO ASHAMED TO MEET HER EYES

“A hot face. From shame.”

“What?”

Diego stepped outside and stared across the old yard. “I tested Lucia.”

“Good,” Aaron said. “Better to find out now.”

Something inside Diego turned firm.

“No,” he said. “It wasn’t good. It was disrespectful.”

Aaron scoffed. “Man, don’t get soft. Women test men all the time.”

“Then men should know how ugly it feels.”

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