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‘Later, when the chef had gone, Eva toldback I put her in touch with Henri, ns this place’

‘You did e favour’ Eva placed two coffees before them ‘Molly?’

‘Mushrooms on toast, and lots of crispy bacon’

‘Good choice’

It was The creamy sauce the mushrooms caht have to reserve rinned as she pushed her plate aside and dabbed her lips with a paper napkin Coogee wasn’t so far from Bondi Junction that she couldn’t make the trip occasionally to eat scrumptious food, check out those shops and dabble her toes in the sea

‘Help yourself to mine’ Nathan smiled, those questions back in his eyes now that breakfast was over

Even knowing how unlikely it was, she’d been hoping he’d let it go Yet she also thought that by telling hi the water to see how he reacted It’d be a baro her past to anyher water, she set the glass down ‘Feel like walking along the beach?’ She could not sit here revealing everything, not with him directly opposite and she firmly in his line of vision

‘You read my mind’

‘Oh, no, I didn’t’ She could nothan ride a wave like two surfers were doing out there

Only three other individuals were on the beach, two in a hurry to get their walk done, probably to head back indoors where it armer Molly zipped her jacket up to her chin

Beside her, Nathan slipped his hands into his pockets andthe beach before she said, ‘My divorce caot the paperwork on Thursday’

‘Was that why you had a toast to yourself at Vicki’s breakfast?’

‘You noticed?’ Was there anything she could keep froood, with a wary eye

‘I’ve started observing lots of things about you’ Then Nathan stopped ‘If that sounds creepy, I apologise It’s not ed since yesterday ’

She glanced across, and couldn’t resist sreat start, did we?’ Could be that deep down she’d sensed how he could affect her if she let hi herself by pushing hiruers crossed that didn’t happen She liked the man, more than liked, but that emotion was for another day further down the track—if they spent ether outside the hospital Nathan hadherself vulnerable, if only because he was so considerate towards her, so to the fore

‘How long were you ht her back to reality with a bump

‘Two years’ Her voice had taken on an e away she didn’t choose to ‘At first it onderful’ Deep breath, stare at the sand ahead ‘And then it wasn’t’

‘I’m sorry to hear that’

She was sorry she had reason to say it ‘He hithim when he was in a mood’

‘I figured that out when you talked about Kath’s proble with’ Nathan ca hers, his hand noeen them—relaxed and there for her Or so she hoped

‘Every last emotion,’ she admitted

‘I hoped I rong’ Then he asked, ‘Can I hold you?’

She didn’t knohether to laugh or cry Nathan was asking if it was all right to hold her Pausing in herthe beach, she faced him square on ‘Yes, please’

As his ar his torso It didn’t frighten her Again unusual It only went to sho much she instinctively trusted this man ‘Nathan?’