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‘She’s lucky She’s going to be okay’

Didi nodded ‘Thanks to you’ She studied him a moment ‘Do you alork on the weekend?’

‘When it’s necessary’ He stared at her a moment with those blueberry eyes, a be…Why the pink lenses?’

‘Because then everything looks rosy on the greyest of days Even you’ S at him, unreasonably happy to see hie of her nose, then stretched her arers

She’d worked all day She had spray glitter on her leggings, needle-stab wounds in her fingers and beads froress

He wasn’t looking at her progress

He atching her nipples prickle and tighten beneath her T-shirt Her nipples hadn’t had such a workout since…never, she decided, and lowered her arms slowly ‘Um…so…what do you think?’

‘Very nice’

‘You haven’t even looked,’ she accused She knew because she’d had her eyes on his since she’d caught hi there

‘I’ve looked’ He crossed the roo you work’

‘Oh’ He’d seen her naked, there wasn’t an inch he hadn’t seen, yet still she felt the blush bloom on her cheeks

‘Watching and i apples Red apples’

Her blush deepened and she flapped a hand ‘What is it with you and apples?’

He s, he held out a slim box she’d not noticed ‘For a hard day’s work’

‘Ah-h-h’ She ripped off the paper, opened the lid An assortment of exclusive, handmade dark chocolates

‘Soft centres,’ he said as he plucked one out and slipped it between her lips ‘I promised you chocolate’

Its decadent creaue ‘Mmm’ She beamed at him ‘Thank you’

‘You’re supposed to share’

‘Of course Sorry Which would you like?’