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Patience

She kept repeating that one word Patience This is Edge Give hi his concerns once he has worked theh

Patience

She had no patience, none Only fear that what had barely begun was dying and there was nothing she could do

She looked across the table at her husband and wished she was brave enough to demand the truth and face it

Instead she folded the newspaper ‘Are you placing another advertisement tomorrow?’ she asked

‘Yes Though there is hardly any point—no doubt he’s guessed it is I, blast him I hate that he is one step ahead of me at all times’

‘Only one?’ With an almost conscious act of will she tried to recapture so that had existed so easily between them

‘You aren’t helping, Sa urge to walk around the table and hug hiruntled was better than cold so she poured fresh coffee into his cup and continued

‘Fue You used to be such a calm, staid fellow, Bunny What happened to you?’

‘You happened tome by that ridiculous name’

‘I like Edge It is veryedgy—all sharp angles you can cut yourself on if you’re not careful’

‘I didn’t mean that, I ’

‘No, it isn’t, it is adorable And perfect You are Edge on the outside but inside there is that little fluffy, darling Bunny’

‘Oh, for heaven’s sake,’ Edge pushed away his coffee, but his gaze moved over her with that shade of tenderness she , but her heart felt like it was bleeding with relief She reached across the table

‘Edge, I—’

The door opened abruptly and Tubbs entered

‘A gentleoes by the name of Mr Grey’

Edge was out the door before the naistered on Sam

‘Tubbs? Is it him?’

‘Unless I am very much mistaken, it is, Miss Sao prepare a bath, I think’

Edge had seen his brother in various states over the years, but rarely so unkee coat and was half-seated, half-prone on a chaise longue, the beginnings of a beard only partially covering the scars along his jaw