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‘I thought we’d covered that subject’ Leo glanced across at her ‘Made a mistake, didn’t make a mistake…There’s just so much conversation two people can have on the subject of a kiss We’re not talking a national catastrophe here, Heather’

She pursed her lips and stared straight ahead Leo, focused on the road, couldn’t see her expression, but he didn’t have to She had been thrown off-balance and this ti it a little more difficult to dismiss She couldn’t duck and dive behind so the horrified victiht off-guard and had therefore been the reluctant participant before co But he wasn’t going to indulge her very female need to discuss it to death, possibly to the point where she decided that flight, yet again, was the preferred response

‘No,’ she said stiffly

‘We need to sort out the practicalities of what happens now,’ he told her smoothly

For a few seconds, Heather thought that he was talking about the lurch inside her as she realised that she wanted to talk about them, that she wanted to be persuaded to abandon every principle she had held dear for all these years, because her attraction to the wretched, inappropriate, totally unsuitable

When Heather had er she had been attracted to hiirlish crush which had morphed over time into a relationship Yes, she had always known that he was an attractive man, but she had never felt physically out of control when she had been around him Leo did that to her She didn’t like it, but she could no longer deny it

‘Practicalities?’ she asked faintly and he spared her another sidelong glance

‘Daniel?’

‘Oh, right Yes Sure’ Heather sternly hts ‘Well, what’s there to discuss? I uess now that you’ve decided to adopt a hands-on approach to the situation it’s pretty much sorted Daniel sometimes trots over so that I can help him with some of his homework, and I don’t mind that, especially if you’re busy…’

‘No can do’

‘I beg your pardon?’

‘I’ve shiftedto be a little…erratic, shall we say?’ They had cleared the town, and the open spaces around them seemed in harmony with his upbeathere he had never really noticed his surroundings Having always considered St James’s Park to be the equivalent of the countryside, he aking up to the reality that it was little reen in the le So it was a pleasant eye-opener to be cruising along the winding little lanes, appreciating the scenery flashing past, not toin the seat next to him That, likewise, was rather pleasant

When he returned to the house, he knew that everything would be in place for him to slot neatly into an office that would be better equipped than most

‘Why should it be erratic?’

‘Eencies occasionally occur that requireto have to go to London to sort out some last-minute concerns fro Also, I may have set up camp in my mother’s house, but that isn’t to say that I’ll be available for comment one hundred percent of the time I would still like you to collect Daniel from school and feed him, by which time I will have done my ut I know none of this is ideal for either of us, but it’s for a limited period of time Once it’s over, we can both return to normality’

‘So you want ht at Katherine’s?’

‘If you don’t mind?’