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Hailey watched as his little chin jutted out deteret He swung back and threw the ball hard, hitting the mark dead on

The croild as the seat gave way and plunged the Brisbane General ht into the water Callum jued To

‘You did it, Tohed

Calluainst his The slide of her breasts against his chest The bounce of her hair around her shoulders, a stray tendril gliding against the skin of his arely intimate

He stopped ju down into her painted face, her freckles obliterated by brown and ginger stripes She s the elaborate feline mask Her mouth was painted black too and he couldn’t believe that so

They hadn’t been this close since that night The night they’d ale He’d made a real effort to keep his distance this last two months To treat her with the ut else

It had been hard Treating her as one of the team at asn’t easy when she all too readily invaded his drea to work each day and having to edit his thoughts and actions all the ti, took reater liberties And, worse, she welcomed them

Hailey saw the heat warhtly before getting her brain back on track ‘Well done, To his hair one more time

They stayed and watched as John got dunked several ot away relatively unscathed, and then Luca, who seemed to spend more tiaze the entire time

‘Oh, no, poor Luca,’ Hailey teased as she handed her brother-in-law a towel ‘What a pity Rilla had to work She would have loved to have seen this’

‘I’rinned ‘I suspect she’ll get the idea’

‘I think Mum videoed it anyway’

Luca turned and waved at Penny Winters, as looking through the viewfinder of her handy caroaned and muttered, ‘Dio’

Toed on Hailey’s hand and she looked down at him