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‘There’s just one condition,’ Poppy told hily

‘And that is?’ Ja in a return of his old hauteur

‘That the head of the coet to share a double room, and a double bed,’ Poppy purred ‘All in the name of financial economy, of course’

‘Of course,’ Jareed, and then added in a husky voice as he saw the way Poppy was looking at hi—remember?’

EPILOGUE

Holly JOY was born four days before Christ father to take her and her ether as a family

‘She’s perfect,’ Jaly on Christhter ‘But not as perfect as you’

Poppy laughed

‘I can remember a time when “perfect” was the last adjective you would have used to describe ain as Holly Joy squeaked her protest at having her enjoyment of her supper disrupted by her father’s deterhter was soon stilled as she responded to the love and passion she could feel in James’s kiss

‘Do you realise that I wanted our baby to be a girl because I saw it as a way of loving ato his confession, felt tears for as she understood just how much her husband wanted—had alanted—her love

Around her neck she earing the creaiven her to celebrate their baby’s birth, and ast the presents which had arrived for Holly Joy from her aunt Sally had been a handn of flowers and ribbons, rather like a bridal wreath