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“Conflict of interest to begin with, and secondly, I don’t think that she is interested in me.”
     
    Jamie rolled her eyes. “Dad, please. That is a horrible reason. Ms. Smith would never show any favoritism toward me. Then there is the fact that you won’t know if she likes you or not if you don’t ask.”
     
    He gave his daughter a look. “Well, judging from our conference today, others would.”
     
    Jamie shook her head, and he knew what he was in for. He recognized his own expression on his daughter’s face every time.
     
    “How many times have I told you that their opinions don’t count?”
     
    He chuckled, wondering when they had reversed roles. “Several.”
     
    His daughter was wise, sometimes too wise. For the last six months, Jamie and Jana had been trying to convince him to start dating again. Not too long ago, Jamie had confided in him that she knew about the trouble that he and her mother, Nicole, had been having in their marriage. She’d reassured him several times that he was, and always had been, a good father and husband.
     
    The fact that he wouldn’t let anyone bad mouth their mother in spite of all of the horrible things that she’d done was proof of that. It had broken his heart to know that he hadn’t been able to protect his children in the way that he’d wanted to. His children were everything to him, the one thing that he’d been successful at. There had been times his children were the only thing that had kept him going. He was not sure if he wanted to put his heart on the line again. Everything that he had in himself had been given to Nicole, and it hadn’t been good enough. A thirty-minute parent conference with Kayla made him doubt that he would be capable of satisfying her. She was on a higher level than Nicole could ever be.
     
    “So you should ask her out,” Jamie hinted.
     
    James smiled at his daughter’s persistence. “What makes you think that she will say yes?”
     
    Jamie rolled her eyes as if the answer was so obvious he shouldn’t have to ask. “Come on, Dad. You are hot, and the ladies love you.” She sighed heavily. “If you would open your eyes and see what is actually in front of you, then you might realize it.”
     
    James shrugged his shoulders. He had a mirror, and he knew that he was a decent-looking guy. Finding a woman had never been hard to do, even when he had been married and had worn his wedding band proudly. Then there was the fact that when the women realized he came with four children, their interest in him quickly disappeared. Yet, finding the right woman had been a hard thing to do, so much to the point that he was no longer interested.
     
    His main focus was to raise a healthy family and keep his career that he loved. He was a CPA, and it could be demanding at times. Being on call could come as an inconvenience as well. He’d just signed a two-year contract with Lockhart, Collins, Vickers, and Associates, a major law firm. There was a firm located in Austin,
Texas
, another in Manhattan,
New York
, and a third in Los Angeles,
California
. Before his father had gotten sick, they had resided in Austin. His mother moved them there after her divorce from his father. The relationship between his father and himself was a little strained because of the distance and the bitter divorce, but it was getting better. It was mainly because he realized that there had been a lot more to his parents’ divorce than he’d originally thought.
     
    His father felt that he’d been a horrible husband, and even more of a horrible father, and the reality was that his mother had been just as much at fault. He had to admit that up until he was an adult, he’d felt like his father hadn’t wanted him. Unfortunately, he’d been with a mother who had been too busy trying to move on with her life to deal with a confused child. Not that Louis was a bad guy. He’d been a decent stepfather and had provided him with another brother and sister. He loved his