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‘No, no siblings,’ he’d said

They’d been lying on the deck utterly exhausted after the scuba diving Or at least she had been ‘So as it like where you grew up?’ she asked, rolling onto her side to look down at him

‘Nothing special,’ he said, keeping his eyes closed

Cara had felt his slight withdrawal and tried to tell herself that she had i about his childhood

‘I don’tone muscular arm over his face as if to shield his closed eyes from the overhead sun

‘So did you grow up in a big house? A little house? Did you go to an expensive boys’ school or an expensive co-ed?’

‘No expensive school I was a kid froinally my dad was a tradie who started a free newspaper before they were popular and made a business out of it’

‘Entrepreneurial,’ she’d said, brushing a few grains of sand that had stubbornly clung to the dark hair on his forearet your business brain from?’

‘So like that’ He’d lifted her hand and studied it ‘My mother certainly appreciated the shift frooodbye western suburbs and hello Rose Bay’

‘You don’t sound like you liked the move very much’

His fingers almost absently laced with hers and he stared at the overhead sky as if he’d never noticed it before and didn’t like what he was looking at ‘A lot changed after that My mother left’

‘Oh, I’m sorry Was it a bad break-up?’

He stared at their entwined fingers as if he didn’t understand how they had got like that ‘It’s fine, Cara I was old enough to handle it’

Cara, too, studied her ser one ‘Do you still see her?’

‘No She died in a car accident eighteen ’ He stopped and rolled over so quickly Cara was on her back and blinking up at hi conversation always makes me horny’

She’d wanted to ask more, of course, but he’d already reached behind her and tilted her lower body into his and rational thought had been usurped by instant arousal