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She frowned ‘Did you? I didn’t see it Are you sure you sent it to me?’

The right side of his top lip caot to a smile ‘Yes, Bella, I’st all the uy with the failing restaurant, or is it still the banker’s son?’

‘It’s neither,’ she said with a lift of her chin ‘His na to be a minister’

‘Of politics?’

She gave hiion’

He threw back his head and laughed It wasn’t quite the reaction Bella had been expecting It annoyed her that he found her news so a any emotion, much less a tilts of his mouth, and she couldn’t reh out loud She found his reaction over the top and completely unnecessary How dared hetoEdoardo was not He was sophisticated and cultured; he was polite and considerate; he saw the good in people, not the bad

And he loved her, rather than hating her, as Edoardo did

‘What’s so funny?’ she asked with an irritated frown

He swiped at his eyes with the back of his hand, still chuckling ‘I can’t quite see it somehow,’ he said

She sent hilare ‘See what?’

‘You handing around tea and scones at Bible study,’ he said ‘You don’t fit the mould of a preacher’s wife’