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Her brow furrowed ‘You have to You can’t stop ’ His reaction seemed to spur her on ‘There’s no way you can stopn and Clio will giveto stay here and watch you walk about in a fog for the rest of your life’
There were rosy spots on her cheeks There was an edge of deter about it
He walked over and put his hands on her shoulders ‘Grace, that’s the best thing I’ve heard this year You will be a fantastic interior designer You are a fantastic interior designer I can’t think of anything more perfect for you But you don’t need to leave here to do that’
There was an almost startled expression on her face ‘Yes Yes, I do I can’t be around you, Finlay I won’t be around you’
His heart twisted inside his chest ‘Not even if I tell you that I love you? Not even if I tell you I’ve been a complete fool?’ He stopped to draw breath ‘Grace, for the first time in years you’veattention to life—oh, I thought I was, but not really, not the way I should have’ He ran his fingers through his hair He wished he’d showered He wished he’d changed out of the clothes he’d spent all night wearing on the roof He put his hands on his hips ‘It wasn’t just Dru else too’
‘What does that mean?’
He reached out for her hands ‘It , Grace I think I have been ready to ed that was me’
She shook her head as he clutched her hands even tighter
‘I’otten every rule of dating that I ever knew’ He pressed one hand against his heart ‘All I know is that ever since I ain I’ve woken up and had soet Anna, but, for a few days there, I felt guilty because I’d hardly thought about her at all My mind was just filled with you, Grace Every time you smiled, every time you winked at me, every time you looked sad The way you loved Christrandmother But I looked at you, and your capacity to love, and wondered if I could ever meet that Ever fulfil that for you’
Grace blinked and licked her red lips Her gaze was steady ‘What are you doing, Finlay? Where has this come from?’
He laughed and pointed to his head ‘In here’ Then his heart ‘And in here I spent et my head in order You know, after a while, you start to think the Battersea Power Station lights should be purple’