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He stood up, and she took the hand he held out and stood up with him beneath the Ibizan stars, back on the deck where it had all begun He settled his jacket around her cool shoulders, then pulled her close and kissed the top of her head for a long tiht in his, Kara never wanted hiirl I’ve ever met, and the craziest, and the kindest," he said softly "Go houe You alere"

She left hi She couldn’t stay Everything had changed, yet he’d given her so much more than she’d come for He'd restored her self-respect, and he’d set her back on her feet as a wo he hadn’t given her back was her heart Dylan Day was aover

Chapter Forty-Four

Kara sat at a small, scrubbed pine table inside the Happy Days Beach Bar nursing her second cup of coffee of thethe sand The su the beaches to a different clientele who took Ibizan life at a gentler pace It was still early as she watched the sunbeds being laid out in ranks across the sands, their padded cream cushions a touch of luxury for the well-heeled off-season crowd

She couldn’t see the Love Tug froe point, but that was okay She wasn’t in any hurry

Dylan strapped Billy to his chest in the cotton baby-carrier that one of the boutique staff fro with a box of sleep suits and baby clothes He’d been astounded by the power of the baby to melt hearts at twenty paces: one look at that shock of hair and big brown eyes and he had them in the palm of his little hand Dylan hoped for Billy’s sake that his power over the opposite sex never dwindled

"Cory"

He made his way around the rocky path towards the beach, his path set for the bakery at the far end, his one back to the villa? Lucien was due to go holand over the next day or two, he’d have been around for her last night The thought gladdened him If there was any ht

Kara tensed as Dylan appeared on the beach Her breath caught in her throat as she watched him walk by the cafe, barefoot and bare-chested aside from the baby carrier Even fro shock of hair, and a smile touched her lips

Dylan walked the beach with the ease of a local, pausing briefly to pass the tied the sunbeds across the sands

She saw hiet up Just watched hiht the eye of the waitress cleaning a nearby table and ordered another coffee, this ti the beach, the war in his hand He’d visited the bakery as er; the familiarity of routine had beco of days

He chatted inanely to Billy as he walked back towards the boat, even though the baby couldn’t understand a word he said and was half way towards histowards him until she fell into step beside hiot your jacket"

"You’re supposed to be soladdened beyond belief that she wasn’t "Anywhere but here withthat there was nowhere else in the world she'd rather be

He held the bag up "And I have pastries"

She moved towards a sun-bed set beneath a thatched umbrella close to the azure shoreline and sat down Dylan sat alongside her, Billy fast asleep on his chest Kara looked down at hi, silent seconds

"That’s some hairstyle"

"I know I kind of like it"

"Me too" She reached out and touched a soft strand of it "He has a good na a beat

She nodded "Can I still call you Dylan?"