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‘Why me? With your contacts you must know others who fit the bill’

‘This opening’s being publicised as a big event in the art community I don’t have the tilanced at the piece, looked back to her ‘Your work’s unique—I’m prepared to take a chance I want you’

His voice was neutral, all business, but his eyes…his eyes i to those last three words Her pulse see it difficult to s She gulped down aze

But he didn’t want her so ave her a sense of power that she’d never had Which emboldened her to say, ‘I have another request…Perhaps favour is a better word? It’s about Charlie’

‘Ah Yes Charlie’ His tone predictably cooled

‘Could we perhaps compromise?’ Her parents had often mentioned the word and Didi in the same breath ‘If I’m here for nearly three weeks, it’s hardly fair to keep hiree to hi in here with me?’ Cameron didn’t look impressed with her idea—his broered, his lips thinned, then pursed as if about to speak ‘And I know he’d love the sky garden,’ she hurried on ‘He couldn’t do e there and if I could leave the door open a fraction…’

He blew out a sigh ‘I guess we can try it before he strips the paintwork on the bedroodom come’

She paused, knowing, hating that she had to say, ‘I love hi a place that will take me and a pet…if you know anyone ants a cat…’ She blinked away a sudden moisture

‘I’ll ask around at the office,’ he said ‘Meanwhile he’s okay here’

‘Thank you’ She polished off her wine and felt the grin pull at her cheeks as the bubbly danced through her systeood ne’

‘You do that Then we’ll eat; I assury?’

‘Famished,’ she called as she all but skipped on those pretty bare feet across the rooe ‘All I’ve had today is an apple’