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‘You’re back’

‘So it would see in front of hi one of his shirts, so It was buttoned tight across her fabulous body and her breasts spilled beyond the confines of the thin fabric, revealing a generous cleavage and an eyeful of her circular, pouting nipples pressed darkly against the cotton He quickly refocused on her face, now tinged pink with ehtdress left precious little to the iination

‘I…I was just gettingtoday, ith one thing and another…’

‘And all you’ve found is a bar of chocolate?’ Leo was finding it hard not to stare The woenerous curves that were the stuff of e boys’ fantasies He strode into the kitchen and watched out of the corner of his eye as she fell back onto one of the kitchen chairs, chocolate still in hand ‘I’llto send a sugar rush through you, and you’ll have to kiss sweet goodbye to getting any sleep’ He pulled out sos and cracked them into a bowl

‘There’s no need for you to do this’ Heather was now painfully aware that she was being a chore on top of everything else ‘I’ve lost my appetite anyway’

‘No, you haven’t,’ Leo inforht red-handed in the kitchen At any rate, you need to keep your strength up’

‘What are you talking about?’ When that failed to get a response, she added nastily, ‘I thought you didn’t do Mr Domestic’

‘I think I’s—scrambled or fried?’

‘Scrambled would be fine Thank you’ Of course he was on safe territory! She was history, as far as he was concerned There was now sooing to think about that ‘How is Katherine? Did you get to see her? Talk to her? Or was she asleep?’

‘Yes, to the first two Surprisingly awake, considering the ti asleep First I knew of that’ He began stirring the eggs in the frying pan, and put bread in the toaster

‘She must have been really pleased to see you And the doctor—did youand made an effort to stop, to act normally

‘Of course I did,’ he said, sounding surprised that she had ever doubted that he would ‘It’s all straightforward, but the healing ti onto the slice of toast on a plate and placed it in front of her And withouta beat he added, ‘Which is where you come in’

It took a few seconds for that postscript to sink in because she was busy losing herself in the fluffy perfection of the plate of food in front of her She had never been heavily into

‘What?’ She glanced across the table to where he had taken up position on the chair facing her

‘How’s the egg?’

‘Delicious What did you say just then?’

‘Finish eating and then we’ll discuss it’ He noticed she didn’t fiddle with her food, shoving it around her plate as if trying to distance herself fro in He found that he liked that, or at any rate it h to know better, were usually trapped by their own vanity and desire not to put on weight The slice of toast would have been avoided like the plague

‘Discuss what?’ She could have eaten the lot all over again She felt cal width of the kitchen table Being surprised by hi wreck, but she had taken her cue fro an unexpected situation The fact that his presence did so to her peace of mind was neither here nor there

‘Ah…’ Leo stood up and cleared away the plate, now scraped clean ‘Myto need someone around while she’s in hospital, and quite possibly when she gets out’

‘Yes She will’ Heather challenged hiaze ‘And so will Daniel’

‘And I will be here, as much as I can But when I am not…’

‘You want er and with a certain amount of weird disappointth up? Why you decided to spend fives on toast?’ That hurt ‘Katherine in hospital, and me bed ridden with flu because I haven’t eaten, just wouldn’t do, would it? Because nothing can be allowed to get in the way of work, can it?’ She stood up abruptly and began to walk towards the door, only to turn around and find him virtually on top of her