page32 (2/2)

‘Darling, you can be so terribly stubborn at tio when she was a troubled teenager That’s not who she is now I suspect that’s not who she ever was Please be nice to her’

James wondered what histo Aiesha Nice enough to hold her To kiss her To want to make love to her so badly his whole body throbbed with it ‘I’h for you?’

‘Lovely,’ Louise said ‘I knew you’d sort out your differences eventually Noill you be nice to Richard when I introduce you to him?’

‘When do I get the chance to give him the once-over?’ James asked

‘We’ll have to have a double date or soet home,’ Louise said ‘Won’t that be fun?’

He rolled his eyes ‘An absolute riot’

Aiesha was flicking through the channels on the television in the sitting roo frown on his face ‘My uy and fancies herself in love with hio but she’s only seen him for a few days since and now she thinks she’s in love Unbelievable Freaking unbelievable’

‘Awhoeet’

He glared at her ‘This is irl with stars in her eyes She’s fifty-nine years old, for God’s sake She should have more sense’

Aiesha put the reot up froed doesn’t mean she’s dead from the waist down’

His broere jaether over his eyes ‘What’s that supposed to mean?’

She eased her hair out of the back of her sweater, shaking it free over her shoulders as she held his narrowed gaze ‘Sex’

He sent a hand through his already tousled hair, suggesting it wasn’t the first ti ‘I don’t even want to think about my mother and sex in the same sentence’

‘You’re being terribly old-fashioned, Ja it on with any female under twenty-five with a pulse, and yet you won’t allow your mother to be in a mature and respectable relationship? That’s hardly fair’