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Chapter One

Tilly Turner was not sure wearing a as such a good look The strip of duct tape securing it just beneath her left breast pulled unco, she wasa lot But if the mini-microphone was uncomfortable, the wretched three-inch sparkly heels were ten tiht and stature, and they litzy nylon like animated peaches, but a peachy butt was not acceptable compensation for a broken ankle

“Oh God, sorry,” sheher around the sprung floor of the Colliton community centre

“Take it easy,” he said again “Rome wasn’t built in a day, you know It takes tio”

He had that right Who would believe that Tilly ‘Two Left Feet’ Turner would ever be spotted at an evening class devoted to the Argentine tango? Certainly not her old school friends, who couldn’t even prevail upon her to do soht in the local nightclub

“I don’t do dancing,” she always told the is for people ay I lurch Lurchers should never dance”

“Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow,” dictated the teacher fro the crues, sexes, heights, weights and social profiles Tilly’s gent was one of the roup; her first partner had been a sweaty man in a soaked football shirt It had come as a massive relief to find that partners were swapped every ten ive each dancer the opportunity to shimmy with an expert

“I’m okay with the slow, it’s the quick that floors me,” Tilly said

“Just concentrate” His smile was polite but frosty

Tilly tried to concentrate, tried tofro her froic dress and these killer shoes be tax deductible? Would the wire stay in place when her skin was becoerously slippery? And how the hell had her client o teacher?

At the set-up , over lattes in Starbucks, Melinda hadn’tresemblance to a cross between Heathcliff and somebody out of an Abercrombie & Fitch ad Tilly had to wonder why It would make Melinda’s insecurities a little ly paranoid Tilly herself thought that she would hate to be involved with such a handso

She had s of her biscuit while Melinda outlined her requirements

“I love him, of course I do, I love him to death,” the woman had insisted in nasal tones “He’s my soul mate, my rock He completes me, knohat I mean?”

“Yeah That’s great So…”

“I just have a little probleood comes into our lives, we can’t just sit back and enjoy it, can we?”