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Before anyone else can take it away fro Helena with a htedly and turns toward Blake

‘Turns out he’s a chip off the old block He’ll take, but he won’t give’

I gasp at the insult, but Blake stands and says s this little fellow here to the kiddie pool Do you want to spend soratefully, and for the first tirandmother At that moment my heart melts a little She cannot be all bad I will be as nice as I can to her

‘All right,’ Blake says ‘I’ll have the nanny come around to your suite at about eleven aive hierly leaves her perch

Helena turns toward me ‘Will you have tea with me tomorrow, Lana?’

That takesme expressionlessly Up to me

My hands are suddenly clammy ‘That will be nice,’ I accept

‘Good, that’s settled then See you at four’

‘See you then,’ I say, and we leave her at the table I dare not glance back, but I can feel her eyes on us until we get out of the door, and turn the corner

‘Wow!’ I say ‘That was intense’

‘You don’t have to go tomorrow, you know?’

‘I know that I’ll be OK,’ I say, and kissing the on her front on a sun lounger Her bikini top is undone and her back is evenly brown She opens her eyes and looks atsome of the suntan lotion that her mother makes at home on my shoulders and stomach, sit down beside her

‘Well, did he bite her?’ she asks languidly

I slather iving up her lollipop, and then refused to go to her afterwards’

‘Lollipop?’ Billie says, lifting her head, suddenly cheered by the thought of a fresh grievance ‘That’s not fair How coive his ‘She’s not either Blake’s already told her not to’

She leans the side of her head on her elbow ‘What was his reaction to the lollipop?'

‘His eyes nearly rolled to the back of his head, he liked it that ht it on your phone?’

‘No, I was too much in a state’ I put the lotion on the floor between us and lie down

‘Shame I’d have loved to have seen it’