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‘You haven’t made a fool of yourself,’ he reassured her, and shepherded her down to the hospital café

He only saw Madison in passing during the afternoon, and when he arrived ho dinner rather than going out so to do rather than just pace the house and wait for the ti to do other than think about the fact that he really wanted Katrina to approve of him…and at the same time he really wanted her to disapprove of hi for her

How could you want so so much and yet not want it at the same time?

He busied hi the previous evening, then took the pork fro was bubbling away nicely when the doorbell rang, and Theo’s heart skipped a beat

He opened the door and Madison was there, se bunch of flowers

Yet again she’d ed to surprise him

‘Flowers? For me?’ he asked as she handed them to him

‘Not quite as spectacular as the ones you gave me the other day,’ she said Flowers that had ht you soive your host flowers’

He raised an eyebrow ‘Including male hosts?’

Her eyes were filled with amusement ‘Don’t be so sexist, Kyrios Petrakis’

‘Signomi, Madison I should remember my manners and thank you properly’ He swept into a lo ‘I deeply honoured by your gift, Despinida Madison,’ he said, lish words sound heavily accented ‘Please to co himself, he hammed it up even more ‘I with you soon I check dinner Me no want burn food like Despinida Madison does’

Madison cuffed his arm ‘Behave, Theo’

‘You started it,’ he rerin, then turned to the woman beside her ‘Hello, Katrina Pleased to ise for my poor manners Do come in’