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‘Oh, now I understand’ She laughed softly and Dare thought in the case of her smiles DMR didn’t apply at all

‘What are you two grinning at?’

Grinning?

Dare frowned at his rinner’

‘Coffee,’ Carly answered, her face carefully blank ‘And whether it keeps you up all night’ She shifted uncoo up to bed I hope you don’t think I’ht?’

‘Of course not,’ Rachel said ‘All that walking today must have made you tired’

‘Yes’

Carly smiled but it didn’t reach her eyes and Dare had no idea what had just happened One ether and the next she was giving hi as if he didn’t exist

Tension coiled through hihter than the screws on his Kawasaki ‘Are you sure you’re okay?’

‘Perfectly fine,’ she said briskly

Dare gave hiht was only half over it was no skin off his nose He had no hold on what she did Certainly he had no cause to be irritated by it

‘Sweet dreato bed at ten o’clock He wasn’t a child

He lifted the bottle of wine from the bucket ‘More wine, Mother? Benson?’

Carly felt infinitely better after brushing her hair and putting on her pyja with his one ht have atteery with her butter knife

And not because he had been deliberately awful to her, but because he hadn’t! Up until now she hadn’t experienced a relaxed Dare and it only otistical he could be