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‘Designer diffusion ranges?’ He laughed again as she nodded ‘What about while you were away?’

‘It pays to buy quality It lasts longer,’ she told hi had cost‘Now, I believe you pro to do’

‘We could just drive and see where we end up,’ Gabe suggested

‘Oh, no, if I a a day off it needs to be well planned so I make theyou drive my car one more time you’re crazy My nerves won’t take the strain’

Gabe grinned ‘We’ll see,’ was all he said ‘Coanise a day of spontaneous fun’

Of course it had begun to rain Why had he given up the golden beaches of California or the flower-strewn rey, drizzly island?

Although Paris could be rainy too, Gabe conceded But solish countryside it was just wet

‘Thoughts, Mr Spontaneity?’

Gabe sat back in his seat and considered The prospects weren’t appealing: a walk, a tour round a stately home, a visit to yet another of the exquisite olden stone hich the region abounded If they were going to do that they olden and historic of the lot

The sea? But they were in the middle of the country and the nearest coast was over one hundred miles away

He could, if he hadn’t been overcome with a ridiculous chivalry, have been on a train into the city right now A visit to the gym, a couple of hours in the office and then a few beers in Kensington with so vulnerable about the elegant Polly Rafferty sluolden hair piled up into an untidy ponytail, red-eyed, white-faced The circumstances couldn’t have been more different, the wo moment she had reminded him of Marie

Of Marie as she began to give up

The irony was that he had spent the last ten years turning away from women who provoked even the smallest reminder of his ex One hint of vulnerability, of neediness and he was gone—so as he sitting here watching the rain lash the windscreen on a ical mystery tour to nowhere?