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‘My Christmas decorations and some food’

‘Why are you driving round with Christ to a party,’ he reasoned for hi of what she wore

‘No, I wasn’t I intended to spend the night withto be on her own for Christmas But…turns out her son ca to surprise her, so when I went off the road I was driving hoain’

‘Where’s home?’

She named a town Vito had never heard of

‘Where are you from?’

‘Florence…in Italy,’ he explained succinctly

‘I do knohere Florence is…it is fa up at hi them in the small space lit by his torch ‘So, you’re Italian’

‘You do like to state the obvious, don’t you?’ Vito derided, sto into the porch one step behind her

‘I hate that sarcas herself almost as much by surprise as she took him because she usually went out of her way to avoid conflict

An elegant black brow raised, Vito re his coat and scarf and then lifted the rucksack froot in here? Rocks?’

‘Food’

‘The kitchen here is packed with food’

‘Do you always know better than everyone else about everything?’ Holly, whose besetting fault was untidiness, carefully hung her wet coat beside his to be polite

‘I very often do know better,’ Vito answered without hesitation