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‘How about me, what?’

‘You said you had so it in?’

He shrugged ‘Is isn’t much, just a couple of steaks I left the box in h to keep and besides…’

‘Besides, you’ll be leaving soon’

They looked at each other for a long moment, and then Nick smiled

‘Remember ere here before?’

‘Which time?’

‘The first ti about the last ti’

Holly nodded ‘I remember’

‘It snowed that first tiht And you said I cheated’

‘You did! You sneaked up behind me—’

‘I hit you, fair and square’

‘Didn’t’

‘Did’

‘Didn’t! The rules were—’

Nick walked casually to the door and opened it Holly saas corabbed her, and the handful of snow he’d gathered slid icily down her collar and along her spine

‘That’s a declaration of war, Brennan,’ she gasped

‘Marquess of Queensberry rules,’ he yelled, as they grabbed their jackets and ran outside

‘Street rules,’ she yelled back

‘Give ed her first snowball ‘What does a poor little rich girl know about the street?’

‘Plenty,’ Holly said, and set out to prove it

Half an hour later, they’d fought their way almost to the road

Nick ducked behind a pine tree A snowball whizzed by his nose

‘Enough,’ he said, laughing ‘I give up, Cabot You win’

Holly stalked towards hi to fool me, Brennan’

‘Me?’ he said, eyes wide and innocent

She bent, scooped up a handful of snow, and kept on co ice down my collar while ere still in the kitchen’