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“I live too far away I’ll just go and buy so”
Andrew raised his eyebrows “And you can be at the train station in less than an hour?” His tone was riddled with disbelief
She picked up her bag “You’ve obviously spent your life shopping with the wrong women, Andrew Of course I can Tell me what time and what platform”
He was sreen eyes Maybe she should have paid attention before now?
“Platform three, Euston See you then”
Kenny dug through his pockets and pulled out a company credit card “Put any of your expenses on this – including your clothes And thanks, guys We need the film by the 28th”
Juliette glanced at her watch Thirty minutes That’s around the tiet to Euston It was only two stops but it would be busy
Andrew had already walked out the door Her stouy she hardly knew in a haunted house in Scotland
Perfect end to her year
Turned out Andrew had been right to raise his eyebrows It looked like everybody on the planet was currently shopping on Oxford Street on Christ supply of s the pave profusely, dressed in business suits and picking up any item that was in arm’s reach The crush was so bad in some places she couldn’t breathe
Her favourite shop was a no-go area She couldn’t even get in the door Christ out of every shop doorway Assistants all looked as if they could burst into tears any second now And when her last desperate attempt to find a suit in her size failed in the fourth shop she tried, she darted into the nearby expensive department store and ended up with perfuirl
Finally, she ran up the stairs to wo with a few shirts, t-shirts, jeans and boots
A lift pinged next to her and she sagged inside crushing her bags alongside her “Knickers!”
Everyone in the lift turned to look at her as her face flooded with colour Underwear She’d forgotten to buy underwear She pressed the button for the floor underneath with her only available finger – her pinkie – andwhatever she could
She couldn’t help but laugh at the a exactly the same as she was How -sized and mismatched underwear?
Finally, she was finished She glanced at her watch Eeek!!! But there was no way she was leaving without one last thing If she had to spend Christ sure one thing was perfect
The waft of chocolate caold store with old-fashioned sold apron and red tinsel around her shoulders smiled sweetly as she rushed inside
It was thesmile she’d seen all day “Soet you, dear?”
Music to her ears Her fingers grabbed the edge of Kenny’s credit card – it was already red hot
She sla”
Andrew looked at his watch for the twentieth ti through the croith her blonde hair flapping around and her red coat sticking out like a beacon
Her eyes lit up as they connected with his and for a second he felt his world sway Juliette was a permanent fixture in front of his caood – but the truth was she looked good on her own anyway Or usually she did Right now, her face was red and her hair was sticking to her forehead She’d obviously used Kenny’s credit card well, her ars
“Andrew, thank goodness I didn’t think I was going to make it in ti heavily so he leaned down and took sos from her hands as she climbed aboard
He held out his hand to show her to their table on board Flustered, hot and sweaty Three new looks for the normally cool, calm and professional Juliette all at once “I ordered you soe off your nerves on the way to Scotland”
She was still breathing heavily and trying to pull her damp hair away froe off?”
There was a tinge in her voice, al Juliette was norh and never gave hie of plans had frazzled hernot to smile
He dus into the seat next to her “I think we both need to take the edge off”
She slid her arms from her jacket and flopped into the seat A wicked sest box of chocolates he’d ever seen fros as the others scattered across the floor spilling their contents
“Oops” He bent down to help her pick up her purchases
“How much did you buy?”
She sighed “I thought at first I’d just need a couple of pairs of jeans, a few t-shirts, some flat boots and some underwear Then, I realised I’d be in front of the ca a bit more dressy And you knohat our vieould say if I wore the same outfit every day you film”
He nodded as his pinkie held up the smallest
g-string he’d ever seen She seeht be a bit cold in Scotland with these on I probably should have warned you to buy long johns and fleecy pyjamas”
She laughed “Darn it,” and held up an equally skihtdress “You mean this won’t cut it?”
He gulped She hadn’t even had a sip of wine and herrapidly “That definitely won’t cut it where we’re going”
She wrinkled her nose as she opened the box of chocolates “Where are we going?”
“Ayrshire West coast of Scotland The journey to Glasgoill take four and a half hours, then we get another train that takes around forty minutes”
Juliette glanced at her watch “So it’ll be pretty late by the tiet there?”
He nodded and reached over for a chocolate
She slapped his hand “Noare I fully intend to eat the whole box on the way up to Scotland The orange ones are out of bounds”
“Was it the smallest box they had?” He couldn’t help but tease her The chocolatiers just off Oxford Street was known to be expensive
She held up a chocolate and exa it in her mouth, then took a sip of wine, relaxed back in her chair and closed her eyes letting the wine and chocolate take their full effect “Hain and she reached for another chocolate “I’d planned to go there and buy a s the whole ‘you-need-to-filave est box in the shop” She licked her fingers “Hht be out of bounds for you too” She winked “I also bought a few extras” She held open another plastic shopping bag that was crairl kne to shop
Andreasn’t norrab a box “I’et all the rotten ones, aren’t I?”