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When she got up the nexthadn’t ached She was so used to the feeling, it was strange, but she almost missed it Her hand reached auto in theand then she stopped herself She didn’t need them

Ever since her accident there hadn’t been a single day that her leg hadn’t ached unbearably

Maybe it was the extree she spent six hours a day on the slopes Yesterday had been the first time she hadn’t

She showered and pulled on so Leo to have left so today But, instead, he was sitting at the dining table, finishing a phone call

He looked up as she walked through ‘I thought you promised me pyjamas and thick socks?’

She shook her head as she looked down at her jeans and si the—what could beinto ain Daytiht-time New York were equally beautiful

‘It’s like ato the world up here,’ she said breathlessly She pressed her nose against the glass and looked down People looked like ants darting purposely beneath her in a myriad of colours

She spun back around and leaned against the glass ‘I thought you had urgent business to attend to Isn’t that e came back?’

His face was serious for a second ‘Yeah, I’ve just spoken to Joe He’s quite the traditionalist He wants to meet for dinner’

‘What does that mean?’

‘That htsee’

Anissa’s stomach fluttered She liked how that sounded She liked it a lot ‘So, where to, then?’

He held out his arms ‘Your wish is my command’

The first place he took her was an all-American diner near Central Park that was his favourite breakfast hangout It didn’t look e stack of pancakes later Anissa was convinced

He’d been too embarrassed to tell her he had virtually no food in the house—his lone bachelor status meant he rarely prepared meals—and that included breakfast So he’d dashed off a quick ee before they’d left the apartment

She earing that long blue coat again, the one that brought out the colour of her eyes, and he found hi on them

Next, it h the snow together across the Bow Bridge and doards the Angels of the Water fountain Then they wove their way through the park towards Belvedere Castle

‘I never knew there was a castle in Central Park,’ said Anissa as they turned towards it

‘It was renovated in the eighties I think up until then it had been allected Now it’s one of the visitor centres’

A huge smile broke out on Anissa’s face ‘It’s perfect, isn’t it? S so personal about it’

‘It’s been used in some movies’

‘Really?’ She spun around and held out her arms ‘Just think, I wonder if a real-live princess ever stayed here’

Leo was looking at her with an amused expression on his face ‘I’m not sure that anyone—royal or otherwise—has ever stayed here’

‘But isn’t it nice to iine?’ she said quickly

New York was sparking so inside her Oraway fro that had surrounded her for

‘Look at the gorgeous view across the park’ She turned around and held up her hands ‘Not that the view fronificent But this, this is just different’

His shoulder touched hers as he stood next to her on the ra snow all the ti ocean?’

It wasn’t the strangest question in the world but it kind of took her unawares ‘I’ve never had a beach holiday,’ shewhat it would be like to run about in a bikini all day

Her hand went auto to think about holding your belly in all day Or whether you had enough sunscreen on the places you couldn’t reach’