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He pulled on some jeans and a sweater ‘The surprises aren’t over yet’

‘They aren’t?’

‘No, I have arranged for us to have Christmas dinner at a nearby hotel, where, I’m reliably infore open fire’

She senuine war the real Lisa, breaking down her barriers She’d tried to do the same to him, but over the years he’d made his defence impenetrable Would she tell him what it was that had happened in her past to have made Christmas a bad time for her and her family?

‘What happened?’ he asked, knowing full well he was taking advantage of the unspoken truce between the soether for their child he had to know

‘Happened? When?’ She stood by the bed, wrapped in the faux-fur throw fro deliciously sexy but also very scared He was intrigued and now he had to know

‘When you were a child? To make you miss out on Christmas?’

‘I think that is a question I should be asking you’ She s to slip into place again ‘You are the one who doesn’t like this time of year I’ve just never experienced it like this’

She was right He was also well aware that if he wanted to find out what it was she was hiding fro locked away, then he too would have to reveal who he really was

‘I have a very good reason for not liking this time of the year’ How had this been turned around to be about him?